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VoterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Hopefully they’d come up with a better numbering system than base 10. Base 10 is the worst part of metric tbh.

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Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Every base is base 10 dumdum

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- TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s true. It should really be referenced by the number before 10 (e.g. Base 9).
  
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  - scrollo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Woah, I had never considered that. To think, all these years I was on the side of “initial index is 1.” I’ve unknowingly been using “initial index is 0,” since I started using numbers.
    
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  - merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    IMO it should be called “base 9+1”. It is a “base 10” system because each order of magnitude is 10x as big as the previous one. But, the key thing is to know which digit is the last one before you roll over.
    
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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is your issue with metric, or with the fact that everything in life uses a base 10 (which should really be called a base 9+1) system?

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