toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?message-squaremessage-square695linkfedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1249arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square695linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareArchimedes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·2 days agoWe should have stuck with base 60. The sumerians had it right.
minus-squareFreshParsnip@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI like base 12. It’s more easily divisible into more numbers than 10. Base 60 is great too cause it’s 12 times 5, giving it advantages of 12 and 10
minus-squarenforminvasion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoWow… Freaking traitor. Archimedes, the Greeks expected more from you…
minus-squareArchimedes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoI can learn from my mistakes, unlike Socrates
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoAnd the medieval European clergy/“learned” people carried those mistakes until like the late Renaissance. Somehow their list of infallible entities were the trinity and Socrates.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI know too many people who would never have been numerate if we used sixty different digits.
minus-squaremirshafie@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoBase-60 is so based that it would only need something like 10 digits to express.
minus-squareArchimedes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoThe last 2 are pronounced Dec, and El
We should have stuck with base 60. The sumerians had it right.
I like base 12. It’s more easily divisible into more numbers than 10. Base 60 is great too cause it’s 12 times 5, giving it advantages of 12 and 10
Wow… Freaking traitor.
Archimedes, the Greeks expected more from you…
I can learn from my mistakes, unlike Socrates
And the medieval European clergy/“learned” people carried those mistakes until like the late Renaissance. Somehow their list of infallible entities were the trinity and Socrates.
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.
Which symbols do you suggest?
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,E
The last 2 are pronounced Dec, and El