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You want numbers to be understandable and K produces illogical numbers. (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, humans ar
by Guvante 2mo ago
You want numbers to be understandable and K produces illogical numbers.
(There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, humans are less skilled at numbers over 100)
And I know temperatures in Fahrenheit go higher but it is common to refer to Phoenix as "over 100" even when it's high can peak over 120.
- zinckiwi 2mo agoThat’s 02025 thinking.
- GolfPopper 2mo agoX̅ ? (I'm a little sad the five-digit date hasn't become popular.)
- chrismorgan 2mo agoWhy would five-digit years have become popular? They seem roundly a bad idea. Years aren’t even four digits by custom: they’re just numbers, with the present idiosyncrasy of eschewing a grouping (thousands) separator. We say the sack of Rome was in 410, not 0410. Only for specific serialisation purposes have we ever recorded fixed-width dates, acknowledging that there are limits to this. The recording of two-digit or offset-by-1900 years in computer systems was a case of bad judgement. The recording of four-digit years as is presently customary is pragmatic and entirely adequate for the next few thousand years, and there’s no point in designing things beyond that horizon.
- lstodd 2mo agoYou mean 0o2025 that is 1045AD?
- thaumasiotes 2mo ago> (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, Yep. > humans are less skilled at numbers over 100) No, the reason is that the century is constant and therefore carries no information. Where the century isn't constant, it never gets dropped.
- 8note 2mo agowhat makes a number illogical? i havent heard of that concept wrt to numbers
- Guvante 2mo agoParaphrasing for "hard to understand" but with an emphasis on internalizing. Most people generally fundamentally know what 30 means in their unit but might have a harder time with 303 (or 272)