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Every base is base 10 (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

50 years? I bet we couldn't even agree on how to write "11" & "12" on such short notice. (See: date format, encoding, etc)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

we could just go with the hexidecimal way and go with A,B,C for 10,11 and 12

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, 12 in base 12 is 10, not C. But yes, 10 can be A and 11 can be B

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude's out here trying to get us to use base 13.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not?

Why not use a large prime as the base?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Honnest answer, 1/2 in DEC is 0.5 easy. 1/2 in base 13 is .6666666666.... Easy but ugly. You want a base that has comon fractions easily represented by decimals. People like dozenal since many fractions are easily represented. 1/2 = 0.6, 1/3 = 0.4, 1/4 = 0.3

I'm personally a fan of hexidecimal partly because I'm a programmer and partially because it can be halved several times

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well we write 12 like this: 10

It's easy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

oops I mean "10" & "11"