Fun fact: As the base goes down, the number gets longer. If you think about the base as the height, you could then find the "area" of the number by multiplying

Fun fact: As the base goes down, the number gets longer. If you think about the base as the height, you could then find the "area" of the number by multiplying the two. It turns out that the base that minimizes this area is e. https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/105Sp10/addcomments/Hayes_ThirdBase.htm https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/10...