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Base 10 can be explained rationally. Look at your hands. See those pointed bits? Count them. Now do you understand why use base 10?
by ecopoesis 10y ago
Base 10 can be explained rationally. Look at your hands. See those pointed bits? Count them. Now do you understand why use base 10?
- jcranmer 10y agoLook at your knuckles. You have 8 knuckles. Therefore, use base 8. You can put each finger in an up, down, or medial state, except the two thumbs which give only up or down. That gives base 28. You can count binary on your fingers as a positional number system. That's base 2. Base 10 is not the only base that's usable on our dexterous digits.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Look at your knuckles. You have 8 knuckles. If you have all fingers on one hand, the thumb of the other hand, and the last joint of each of the remaining fingers removed, sure. But 28 is the usual number of knuckles.