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Modular arithmetic is mentioned but base 6 is not well covered. I started gforth and entered: 3 3 + base ! ( avoiding 6) I was in a world where there was no
by BillBohan 9y ago
Modular arithmetic is mentioned but base 6 is not well covered.
I started gforth and entered:
3 3 + base ! ( avoiding 6)
I was in a world where there was no 6. 5 1 + . gives 10 as a result. 6 1 - complains that 6 is an undefined word.
Decimal returns things to normal.
- soperj 9y agoyeah that was my first thought too. Why not go to base 6. Don't know why you'd have to fire up a program to do base 6 arithmetic though? it's just like binary or decimal or octal or hexadecimal(1+1=10, 9+1=10, 7+1=10, F+1=10)
- CapacitorSet 9y agoBases are about the representation of the number, not the number itself. That's why a baby can identify a group of six items despite not knowing about base 10 or digits in general. For a more practical example, do you think the number twelve does not exist because it takes two digits to represent it?