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[–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Its also inconvenient that the number 10 only really has2 and 5 as factors.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    We should switch to a base 12 number system.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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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