Our current math system is pretty much centered around the use of digits, mostly base 10 with some recent excursions into other bases (2 used in high tech for instance). One could argue that the ancient greeks had a propensity to enjoy base 60 and base 360, but I digress - who me, already...
Our use of numbers and the development of a math system surrounds the use of our digits, steered by our nominal 10, fingers and thumbs.
Looking to the physical world, we see some particularly odd numbers cropping up, however. For instance, perhaps most well known is the ratio of a circle's diameter to it's circumference, PI, being 3.14159 etc. But there are other interesting numbers. For instance the Euler number, e being 2.71828 etc, or the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence, 1.618etc.
These are just a few numbers to illustrate the interesting numbers that crop up in the sciences.
What if these numbers are the units in some other numbering system that govern the math of the universe?
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