Undecimal - Base 11 in Fiction

Base 11 in Fiction

Base 11 systems appear in several science fiction stories: Carl Sagan's novel Contact references a message "hidden" inside pi that is most striking in base 11, as that permits it to be displayed in binary code. Also the fictional Psychlos (in L. Ron Hubbard's book Battlefield Earth) have a base-11 counting system.

In the television series Babylon 5, the Minbari use base-11 mathematics, according to the show's creator.

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