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• Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This comment brought to you by a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to use a different base numeral

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example).

    Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.

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    • Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You count up in incremental numbers until you reach 5280 and then finally increment from 0 to 1 miles. That’s base 5280. Just because we didnt invent more symbols to easily represent that does not mean its not a different numeric base.

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