• drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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      5 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

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        5 months ago

        I still think some largish prime, like 37 hits the perfect spot of being usable enough for people to use, but still useless enough to stop almost everybody from learning any advanced math.

        But yeah, making integers non-representable is a serious trade-off that deserves consideration.