Is 1/2 in base 13 not 0.65?
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drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 weeks agoHonnest answer, 1/2 in DEC is 0.5 easy. 1/2 in base 13 is .6666666666… Easy but ugly. You want a base that has comon fractions easily represented by decimals. People like dozenal since many fractions are easily represented. 1/2 = 0.6, 1/3 = 0.4, 1/4 = 0.3
I’m personally a fan of hexidecimal partly because I’m a programmer and partially because it can be halved several times
bisby@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
No, because the 5 in your answer is thinking in decimal. 0.05 is not 50% of 0.1 in base 13.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
it’s almost like you’d have to use a different notation system to express a different base…