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> Is there an advantage in going base 10 vs base 11? Yes, you can divide by powers of two and five and exactly represent the result. When did you last feel an
by patrec 7y ago
> Is there an advantage in going base 10 vs base 11?
Yes, you can divide by powers of two and five and exactly represent the result. When did you last feel an urge to divide something into 11 parts?
> Now that I think about it base 8 may be better.
Well, that would have given us nicer shutter-times and screw sizes, "Megabytes", max_ints and better floats for money calculations as well as slightly better numerical properties. But personally I think 6 or 30 would have been the way to go. Being able to divide nicely by the first two primes seems pretty practically useful to me.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> When did you last feel an urge to divide something into 11 parts? When did you last feel an urge to divide something into 5 parts?