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minus-squareAlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦link6•1 year agoThe French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie 4*20+10+7.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoOne of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoDon’t you mean base 10? Also, clearly seximal is the best
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoBinary is better than seximal, unless you rig the tests.
minus-square@datelmd5sumlink1•1 year agocoworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.
minus-square@uislink2•edit-21 year agoBase 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
Base 5 is based
The French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie
4*20+10+7.One of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.
Don’t you mean base 10?
Also, clearly seximal is the best
Binary is better than seximal, unless you rig the tests.
coworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.
Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
It gets easier with practice