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One of my favorite language Youtubers, jan Misali, has an interesting video on Dozenal and "Seximal" (base 6) number systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q
by cjhveal 5y ago
One of my favorite language Youtubers, jan Misali, has an interesting video on Dozenal and "Seximal" (base 6) number systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0
- jacknews 5y agoVery good, but I think all these alternate base systems need entirely different digits. People are too used to thinking of '10' as ten.
- mkaic 5y agojan Misali makes excellent content! Most of what I know about linguistics I learned from him!
- a1369209993 5y agoAlso has a followup at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXeX_XKSNlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXeX_XKSNlc including a comparison of various bases in representing reciprocals (eg 1/3 = 0b.010101 = 0s0.2 = 0d0.333333 = 0z0.4 = 0x0.555555).