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Number System
« on: March 12, 2012, 01:13:57 PM »


Base-12: 0 1 2 3 , 4 5 6 7 , 8 9 10 11
Base-10: 0 7 3 , 6 8 6 , 7 8 0 , 5 6 3

« Last Edit: March 12, 2012, 01:19:50 PM by mudkipz »

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Re: Number System
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2012, 01:15:41 PM »
Nice. I thought out something slightly along the same lines. It makes more sense to make numbers like that, but it might be harder to distinguish them if you read quickly.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2012, 01:19:17 PM »
i wonder what it would be like to grow up learning binary or another number system


but it might be harder to distinguish them if you read quickly.

good point i'll go figure something out

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Re: Number System
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 01:49:52 PM »
Having numbers as marks instead of glyphs makes some sense actually.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2012, 04:00:45 PM »
I think our number system works fine as it is.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2012, 04:04:16 PM »
i'd like them to be more systematic.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2012, 04:05:07 PM »
I'd like them to be as they were for... hundreds of years.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2012, 04:06:29 PM »
i think they should change because i'd like to be able to count in base 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, and so on as easily as i can count in base 10.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2012, 05:14:01 PM »
Makes sense.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2012, 11:09:17 PM »
I'd like them to be as they were for... hundreds of years.
Well, I see your point, but it's a typical conservative argument that we should just let everything be as it is.
Imo we should change everything to be the most rational way possible. All of our units should be changed to SI-units. One generation will have some troubles, but it would really benefit ALL the future generations which won't have to live with all of the trash we invented centuries or millennia ago, when we didn't know anything about the world and weren't systematic or consistent with the units etc. we invented.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2012, 11:20:03 PM »
Am I seriously the only person on here who thinks our number system works fine as it is?

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Re: Number System
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2012, 04:50:11 AM »

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Re: Number System
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2012, 11:10:24 AM »
Am I seriously the only person on here who thinks our number system works fine as it is?
No, I also think it works fine as it is. That doesn't mean we can't improve it, though, that's all I'm saying.

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Re: Number System
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2012, 02:29:19 PM »
Too curvy. Nids more simplistic form.