Re: Vocab #5
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 27, 2002, 23:12 |
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Christian Thalmann wrote:
> Eight is a nice number, about the same order of magnitude as our ten,
> but it divides nicer: 2 x 2 x 2 rather than 2 x 5. Most importantly:
> It's not ten! Is there anything more boring than ten-based systems?
> ;-)
I dunno, 10 is, IMO, a bit better than 8, as it can be divided into
fifths and (with nonrepeating decimals) powers of five in addition to 2
and powers of 2, whereas 8 can only be divided by 2 and powers of 2.
But even better is 12. :-)
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