Base 10 | THUNK 60

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Channel: THUNK · 2015 · Education

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0, 1, 2, 3 ... 8, 9, 0 are great and all, but is it possible we'd do better with 2, 16, or 12 numeric symbols?

-Links for the Curious-

A "Pretty Damn Clear" Guide to the Binary System - http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/152/97F/Readings/student-binary

A 17th-century argument for the use of octal numbers - https://books.google.ru/books?id=BCCtZjBtiEYC&pg=PA190&hl=ru#v=onepage&q&f=false

Hex Headquarters Base-16 Advocacy Homepage - http://www.intuitor.com/hex/

The Dozenal Society of America - http://www.dozenal.org/drupal/

io9's "Why We Should Switch to a Base Twelve Counting System" - http://io9.com/5977095/why-we-should-switch-to-a-base-12-counting-system

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