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Its a bit surprising that none seems to have invented base 2. It should be the most expressive way to count using fingers since it allows 32 number to be expres
by tobbe2064 3y ago
Its a bit surprising that none seems to have invented base 2. It should be the most expressive way to count using fingers since it allows 32 number to be expressed with a single hand and 1024 numbers with two hands. But I guess that would be overengineering and annoying for most early cultures.
- ithkuil 3y agoIn 2nd century BC, the the indian scholar Pingala wrote Chandaḥśāstra where he developed a positional little endian (least significant digit on the left) base-2 system using a sanskrit short syllable for 0 and long syllable for one