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Your joke was misinterpreted as a dig, unfortunately. I mean, it's obvious that a prime-number base is best above all: 1 = 1 10 = 2 100 = 3 1000 = 5
by rendall 4y ago
Your joke was misinterpreted as a dig, unfortunately.
I mean, it's obvious that a prime-number base is best above all:
1 = 1
10 = 2
100 = 3
1000 = 5
10000 = 7
100000 = 11
etc
- rocqua 4y agoYou get non-canonical representations such as 11=3 You could go multiplicative based. So 11 = 2×3. But then you get very difficult addition, comparison, and you need numerals inside your numerals. (E.g. 2048 would be 11 as in a single 11 in the first symbol spot)
- rendall 4y agoIt's true. I was teasing, but I did work this out once. IIRC it went something like: A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 5 E = 7 F = 11 ... and so on Then any number can be represented in terms of its prime factorization: 4 : BB or B^B 6 : BC 8 : BBBB or B^C 9 : CCC or C^B 10 : BD ... 100 : (BD)^B 101 : # (some arbitrary unique symbol) ...
- naasking 4y agoActually base e is clearly the superior base as it's the most information-dense number representation.