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Does it not boil down to a tradeoff between the amount of symbols you are willing to learn and the space you want to use to write a number down ? Base 10 strik
by cassepipe 3y ago
Does it not boil down to a tradeoff between the amount of symbols you are willing to learn and the space you want to use to write a number down ?
Base 10 strikes me as good tradeoff
- Qem 3y agoAlso a tradeoff with the size of the arithmetic tables one has to learn by rote. It scales with n^2. 100 entries in base 10, and just 36 in base 6, for example.
- avhon1 3y ago...and also the number of integer factors of your base. 10 only has 1, 2, 5, and 10. Bases 8 and 6 have just as many. Bases 12 and 60 (used by the Sumerians and Babylonians) offer more convenient divisors.