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you think there are sectarian conflicts between like arabic numerals, babylonian base 12, i ching base 2, hindu numbers, roman numerals, etc?
"No it isn't 2 towers, they are two 1's so it's actually 3 in base 2!!"
"Nuh-uh, it's a signed bit so it's negative 1"
"You fools! they are two I's therefore it is II or 2!"
"11 two 1's make 11!!1!"
or something like that i think