Why We Might Use Different Numbers in the Future

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Script
Thank you to script writer Simon Morrow for your work on this video.
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Knot Numbers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangle_...)

Sources
Excursions Into Mathematics by Beck, Bleicher, Crowe
“What’s in a name?”, which was written by Michael Bleicher
Realm of Numbers by Isaac Asimov
Asimov on Numbers by Isaac Asimov
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/c...
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Balanced...
Imaginary Number Bases by Philip Herd: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04506.pdf