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Good idea to mention the scientific notation. As it really is different from the positional notation. You can express some numbers in a shorter way then in the
by itry 12y ago
Good idea to mention the scientific notation. As it really is different from the positional notation. You can express some numbers in a shorter way then in the positional notation. Thats pretty nice. A variable length encoding with compression.
As for different bases: I consider these very similar to base 10. Maybe we will use base X in a million years, but that wouldnt be a big surprise. I was more thinking about a revolution like from "............." to "13".
- sp332 12y agoWell the notation lets you tell how specific you are being about a number. Instead of saying "about 1,000" you can say 1 * 10^3 or 1.00 * 10^3 which give different amounts of information. So it's not exactly the same as base-10. And if you're talking about really big numbers, it's nice not to drag all those 0's around. It's just as big a step from .......... to 10 as from 10000000000 to 10^10.