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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•11 months ago if we all started counting in base12 too You could start by calling it twelve instead of 12.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•11 months agoTo keep things as simple/intuitive as they are today, we’d need two new symbols to represent the additional numbers. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,§,∆,10 Of course it would be confusing as all hell for anyone alive today.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-211 months agoWith hexadecimal we typically use a-f for the remaining numbers. We probably would use something like this for base 12: 012345679ab Of course everyone knows the correct base to use is 2. Or as we call it, base 10. Actually, come to think of it, it would always be 10 in the base that it is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•11 months agoYes, 10 can be any number if you change the base. Non-integer bases are weird, but a few (like base φ) see some use.
You could start by calling it twelve instead of 12.
To keep things as simple/intuitive as they are today, we’d need two new symbols to represent the additional numbers. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,§,∆,10
Of course it would be confusing as all hell for anyone alive today.
With hexadecimal we typically use a-f for the remaining numbers. We probably would use something like this for base 12:
012345679ab
Of course everyone knows the correct base to use is 2. Or as we call it, base 10.
Actually, come to think of it, it would always be 10 in the base that it is.
Yes, 10 can be any number if you change the base. Non-integer bases are weird, but a few (like base φ) see some use.