• @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    Honnest 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
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      14 months ago

      Is 1/2 in base 13 not 0.65?

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        4 months ago

        No, because the 5 in your answer is thinking in decimal. 0.05 is not the half of 0.1 in base 13.

    • @unreasonabro
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      14 months ago

      it’s almost like you’d have to use a different notation system to express a different base…