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Re: Significance of the digit *1*?
In article <473csb$884@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, pankaj@lexis-nexis.com (Pankaj
Dhingra) writes:
|> Maybe this is a cultural thing, but I will ask anyways:
|>
|> What is the significance of the digit 1? When giving gifts
|> or donations, the value always seems to end in a *1*. i.e.
|> $1, $21, $101, $501, and so on.
|>
|> Just wondering,
|> --Pankaj
It breaks into the territory of the next base.
ie 11 has gone beyond 10 and now is approaching 20.
51 is now approaching 60 etc.
Thus hoping that the continuation continues in the life of those that the
gift is given to and that they may prosper.
:-)
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