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YICHM@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 hours ago

it's inconvenient that the number of days in a week is a prime number.

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it's inconvenient that the number of days in a week is a prime number.

YICHM@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 hours ago
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  • Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    We should switch to a base 12 number system.

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      Base 60 is my favorite.

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        Too many digits

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          It’s way too long for a week, yeah.

          Just to be an insufferable pedant, I would like to point out that a base-60 system would only have one digit from 0 to 59. So technically fewer digits than with our current system to express the same range of values, and as we all know, technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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            But you need 60 different symbols. That’s what I was referring to

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              Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, the overall number of extant digits would increase six-fold. I was trying to express the idea that the number of digits in an operation would decrease.

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            Digits too much. Already have 10 and it took me long enough to memorize those ones.

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