• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    I understand you have a fetish for numbers that are multiples of ten, but that doesn’t make them special. Picking a number out of a hat is as likely to be a 9 as a 100.

    • @FooBarrington
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      11 year ago

      Acknowledging that powers of a number systems base are special in that system isn’t something I ever thought people would disagree with.

      Why do you think we have concepts like “percentages”?

        • @FooBarrington
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          11 year ago

          You’re so close to getting it - why is it not a fraction of 10, but a fraction of 100?

            • @FooBarrington
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              11 year ago

              So we use fractions of 100 instead of fractions of 10 because base 60 was too useful? How does that make any sense? The question wasn’t why we use base 100 instead of base 60.