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I'm more of a seximal man myself: https://www.seximal.net/ https://www.seximal.net/

by Skwid 9mo ago

Aardwolf 9mo ago
Base 16 (or base 10, as they would call it) is the perfect base: http://www.intuitor.com/hex/ http://www.intuitor.com/hex/
- Skwid 9mo ago
  I'm standing my ground on optimal base, but I will absolutely be using those hex pronounciations in future
- nephihaha 9mo ago
  Sexagesimal (Base 60) is the way to go. Plenty of history behind it and can handle much larger numbers than decimal.
- rep_lodsb 9mo ago
  The "dividing things by two" argument makes a lot of sense! And if you need ⅓ and ⅕, they aren't too bad either: .5555 and .3333 repeating.
xg15 9mo ago
There better be some deep, decades-long feud between the Duodecimal and the Seximal Society, or I'm very disappointed. (Of course any squabbling is instantly forgotten the moment they have to act against their common arch enemy, the Hexadecimal Society)
- xg15 9mo ago
  (And then there is the Sexagesimal Society. We don't talk about the Sexagesimal Society.)
  - adrian_b 9mo ago
    Yes, bases 12 or 6 bring only a negligible improvement over base 10, which is entirely due to the fraction 1/3 being more frequently encountered in practice than the fraction 1/5. When the exact representation of frequently used rational numbers is irrelevant, base 2 has no competition. If you want to represent exactly more rational numbers than with bases 2 or 10, than either base 30 shall be used (= 2 * 3 * 5) or bases that are multiples of 30, like the traditional 60 or like 240, which fits well in a byte.
nephihaha 9mo ago
Jan Misali! My comment about Esperanto above wasn't far off. Toki Pona... The Newspeak of auxlangs.
scythe 9mo ago
An advantage of seximal is that it takes a lot less time to memorize the times table: there are only ten "nontrivial" entries, whereas in base ten you have 36.
mgr86 9mo ago
Wow, they throw some serious spars at these duodecimal people: > the problem is that Latin uses base ten, so bases larger than ten end up with names that put a bit too much of an emphasis on their relationship with decimal: undecimal, duodecimal, tridecimal, etc. people who like base twelve like to call it "dozenal" instead of "duodecimal" for this exact reason. these names are simply too biased in decimal's favor. ideally, every base should have a unique name that reflects its properties, rather than trivial information about its size.

I'm more of a seximal man myself: https://www.seximal.net/ https://www.seximal.net/

by Skwid 9mo ago

I'm more of a seximal man myself: https://www.seximal.net/ https://www.seximal.net/

Base 16 (or base 10, as they would call it) is the perfect base: http://www.intuitor.com/hex/ http://www.intuitor.com/hex/

Skwid 9mo ago
I'm standing my ground on optimal base, but I will absolutely be using those hex pronounciations in future
nephihaha 9mo ago
Sexagesimal (Base 60) is the way to go. Plenty of history behind it and can handle much larger numbers than decimal.
rep_lodsb 9mo ago
The "dividing things by two" argument makes a lot of sense! And if you need ⅓ and ⅕, they aren't too bad either: .5555 and .3333 repeating.

xg15 9mo ago

There better be some deep, decades-long feud between the Duodecimal and the Seximal Society, or I'm very disappointed. (Of course any squabbling is instantly forgotten the moment they have to act against their common arch enemy, the Hexadecimal Society)

xg15 9mo ago
(And then there is the Sexagesimal Society. We don't talk about the Sexagesimal Society.)
- adrian_b 9mo ago
  Yes, bases 12 or 6 bring only a negligible improvement over base 10, which is entirely due to the fraction 1/3 being more frequently encountered in practice than the fraction 1/5. When the exact representation of frequently used rational numbers is irrelevant, base 2 has no competition. If you want to represent exactly more rational numbers than with bases 2 or 10, than either base 30 shall be used (= 2 * 3 * 5) or bases that are multiples of 30, like the traditional 60 or like 240, which fits well in a byte.

nephihaha 9mo ago

Jan Misali! My comment about Esperanto above wasn't far off. Toki Pona... The Newspeak of auxlangs.

scythe 9mo ago

An advantage of seximal is that it takes a lot less time to memorize the times table: there are only ten "nontrivial" entries, whereas in base ten you have 36.

mgr86 9mo ago

Wow, they throw some serious spars at these duodecimal people: > the problem is that Latin uses base ten, so bases larger than ten end up with names that put a bit too much of an emphasis on their relationship with decimal: undecimal, duodecimal, tridecimal, etc. people who like base twelve like to call it "dozenal" instead of "duodecimal" for this exact reason. these names are simply too biased in decimal's favor. ideally, every base should have a unique name that reflects its properties, rather than trivial information about its size.