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The visual logic sure seems nice, and the test results seem to speak for themselves (would be interesting to see studies on its impact). But I can't help but fe
by c7b 4y ago
The visual logic sure seems nice, and the test results seem to speak for themselves (would be interesting to see studies on its impact). But I can't help but feel that if we are going to introduce a new number system with a different base at all, then that base should be 12. It's a highly composite number, it's divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6, meaning that 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and 1/6 (and their multiples) all have finite-digit representations, which would simplify a lot of everyday calculations. Several pop science articles have been written about the case for base 12:
https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-we-should-already-use-base-12-instead-of-base-10.html https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-we-should-already-...
https://gizmodo.com/why-we-should-switch-to-a-base-12-counting-system-5977095 https://gizmodo.com/why-we-should-switch-to-a-base-12-counti...
If we're happy to use 11 new symbols instead of just 2, we could even keep the ideas from this system of using ticks and sub-bases to make computations more 'visual'.