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Learning more than one base system, like learning more than one language, can only benefit the learner. Is learning binary, octal, and hexadecimal a hindrance?
by t-3 4y ago
Learning more than one base system, like learning more than one language, can only benefit the learner. Is learning binary, octal, and hexadecimal a hindrance? No, it's generally quite beneficial to understanding and offers many insights that are easily missed in base 10. Humans use a ton of different number systems and scales for all sorts of things, from time, to distance, weight, thickness, angles, and more. None of these things harm the learner.