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But 12 only gains you one more factor that's not a power of 2, and is 30 times more difficult to implement (operation tables have 144 cells for base 12, compare

by zeteo 16y ago

But 12 only gains you one more factor that's not a power of 2, and is 30 times more difficult to implement (operation tables have 144 cells for base 12, compared to 4 cells for base 2).

eru 16y ago
That's why you should use the digits -n/2 to +n/2 for base n. That shrinks the tables by a factor of four.
- zeteo 16y ago
  Oh no, I just knew someone would come and argue for balanced n-ary on this thread :)