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Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system
DJKayDawg@lemmy.world 10 months agoI would pick base 12. Which would you prefer?
Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 months ago
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Base 60 has too many symbols for the digits
Base 12 you only need two more symbols to follow 9
Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah but it doesn’t have the same schwag as base 60
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean base 60 would be cool and all, but it would be unwieldy
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Base 60
JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hexadecimal is always best.
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It doesn’t divide by 3
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Granted, but it divides by two multiple times. Take a good, round number like 1024 and you can halve it 10 times in a row.
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Decimal thirds suck. One gets 33c the second gets 33c the third gets 34c
We’re just lucky that 1c is negligible
TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Base 12 crew represent.