This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥 to Showerthoughts • 6 months agoToday's date is Dozen/Half Dozen/Two Dozenmessage-square59arrow-up1355arrow-down124file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•6 months agoPeople already have problems comprehending orders of magnitude with base 10. At base 12 things would only be worse. If anything we should go binary to better understand the difference between a billion and a million. 🥸
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•6 months agoI really don’t think the problem with people not understanding large numbers has anything to do with the base. It’s just lots of people not having a good maths education.
People already have problems comprehending orders of magnitude with base 10. At base 12 things would only be worse.
If anything we should go binary to better understand the difference between a billion and a million. 🥸
I really don’t think the problem with people not understanding large numbers has anything to do with the base. It’s just lots of people not having a good maths education.