TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoinches plus coins equals metric systemlemmy.worldimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1774arrow-down124
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minus-squareTeenieBopper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down8·edit-210 months ago10 isn’t the best base and I’m sick of pretending it is.
minus-squareDJKayDawg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·10 months agoI would pick base 12. Which would you prefer?
minus-squareTeenieBopper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·10 months agoBase 12 crew represent.
minus-squareJack Riddle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoBase six https://www.seximal.net/ Base 12 has some aweful divisions, like 1/5th and 1/7th
minus-squarepHr34kY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoHexadecimal is always best.
minus-squarepHr34kY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoGranted, but it divides by two multiple times. Take a good, round number like 1024 and you can halve it 10 times in a row. The metric system handles thirds by just using multiples. Like, you buy a 1200 wide benchtop and then you can fit a three 400 drawers under it. You could technically do the same in hex and the base numbers are all (x^y + x^(y+1)) which represent well.
minus-squarepsud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoDecimal thirds suck. One gets 33c the second gets 33c the third gets 34c We’re just lucky that 1c is negligible
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoAll the bases are 10
minus-squarepsud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months ago12 would have been a better base. The only thing going for 10 is that’s how many fingers you have if you can only count in ones
minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThere are a total of twelve segments on the four fingers of each hand (thumb excluded) making it just as easy to count to 12.
minus-squarepsud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoOr you can count in binary, and get to over 1000 on ten fingers
10 isn’t the best base and I’m sick of pretending it is.
I would pick base 12. Which would you prefer?
Base 12 crew represent.
Base 60
Base six
https://www.seximal.net/
Base 12 has some aweful divisions, like 1/5th and 1/7th
Hexadecimal is always best.
It doesn’t divide by 3
Granted, but it divides by two multiple times. Take a good, round number like 1024 and you can halve it 10 times in a row.
The metric system handles thirds by just using multiples. Like, you buy a 1200 wide benchtop and then you can fit a three 400 drawers under it.
You could technically do the same in hex and the base numbers are all (x^y + x^(y+1)) which represent well.
Decimal thirds suck. One gets 33c the second gets 33c the third gets 34c
We’re just lucky that 1c is negligible
All the bases are 10
12 would have been a better base.
The only thing going for 10 is that’s how many fingers you have if you can only count in ones
There are a total of twelve segments on the four fingers of each hand (thumb excluded) making it just as easy to count to 12.
Or you can count in binary, and get to over 1000 on ten fingers