toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?message-squaremessage-square698linkfedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1248arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square698linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI know too many people who would never have been numerate if we used sixty different digits.
minus-squaremirshafie@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoBase-60 is so based that it would only need something like 10 digits to express.
I know too many people who would never have been numerate if we used sixty different digits.
It only needs 12.
Base-60 is so based that it would only need something like 10 digits to express.