Talk:Pentimal system

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A fact from Pentimal system appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 6 July 2007.

[edit] Poor reasoning

On the other hand, any authentic find of the use of pentimal numbers in positional notation in Middle Ages Scandinavia would be strong evidence of the authenticity of the North American stones.

I've deleted this, as it constitutes a mistaken line of reasoning known as argumentum ad logicam or argument from fallacy. Incidentally, I can't see the claim made anywhere in the article cited here to back it up: The Kensington Stone - Fiction or Historical Truth?. Nordling appears to already believe in the authenticity of the Kensington runestone, regardless of the lack of medieval verification for positional pentimal numerals. All he says on the Kensington numerals is that the carver used a kind of rune figures, the prototype of which are (sic.) found in a Latin book by Ole Worm printed in 1643. Since this supplies less information on pentimal numbers than the Wikipedia article itself, I don't think there's any harm in losing the link. Dependent Variable (talk) 17:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)