Everyone, please stop this number discussion . This thread is very hot and quite ridiculous. Consult any short treatise or encyclopaedia under "number."
In duodecimal notation, the first 14 positive integers are "named"
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,t,e,10,11,12 ... You see that "4" is the fourth in the series, and "t" is the tenth. "10" is the twelfth.
All of this discussion of 4 in base four arithmetic, deals with an undefined term. In the base four system the first 14 positive intgerers are "named"
1,2,3,10,11,12,13,20,21, 22,23,30,31,32. Notice the fourth integer is "named" 10 = 1 x 10^1 or = 1 x (4^1)base 4.
"1" is the only integer name invariant under change of base. This is because i^0 is identically equal to 1 (where i = any integer).
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