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You seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra l
by vorg 11y ago
You seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra letters "are there". So perhaps a 256 to 1296 multiplication ratio (those 2 numbers there are in base 10).
- tlarkworthy 11y agothe order of magnitude is well known to be defined in base 10. That's regardless of your base of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
- ant6n 11y agoI've only heard of people talk about binary orders of magnitude; hexadecimal no
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