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But numerals "10" in bases other than decimal aren't usually called ten, I think.
by nsajko 11y ago
But numerals "10" in bases other than decimal aren't usually called ten, I think.
- smellf 11y ago"10" is never correctly called "ten" except in decimal. But this whole tangent is getting a little navel-gazey for me. "Base 10" is fine in my book because decimal is our inbuilt base.
- nsajko 11y agoThat's what I said (or tried to :) ).
- rlucas 11y agoShould we call it "base a"?
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- kaoD 11y agoTen is "decem" in Latin. Decimal means, literally, base ten. It's a tautology either way. You can't even specify the base of the base since "base (10 in base 10)" presents the same problem recursively. It's a non-problem though. I don't know about mathematicians, but when programmers say base N they mean N in decimal. EDIT: woops, replied to the wrong post.