Comment on 5 tomatoes
Gustephan@lemmy.world 7 hours agoThis comment brought to you by a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to use a different base numeral
Comment on 5 tomatoes
Gustephan@lemmy.world 7 hours agoThis comment brought to you by a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to use a different base numeral
Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 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.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 7 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.