Message from @Ruggwain

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2018-07-02 22:37:59 UTC  

@Kollins Maybe

2018-07-02 22:38:09 UTC  

Seems like a better number actually

2018-07-02 22:38:20 UTC  

16 would probably be the best

2018-07-02 22:38:28 UTC  

Works great with computers too

2018-07-02 22:39:02 UTC  

hex works well for computers, but either hex or octal would work better with binary and make comprehending computers easier

2018-07-02 22:39:23 UTC  

Or we could be civilized and do things in tens so we don't need to rewrite every single position-based mathematical formulae to include a conversion from hexadecimal to decimal and back

2018-07-02 22:39:31 UTC  

Yeah. Though we couldn't have predicted that

2018-07-02 22:39:52 UTC  

Also metric

2018-07-02 22:39:58 UTC  

Like civilised people

2018-07-02 22:40:22 UTC  

Imagine meeting aliens with number systems based on 8 or 12 or whatever. I bet it would match their number of fingers

2018-07-02 22:40:29 UTC  

@Ruggwain Not saying we should change it, but it probably would have been better if we started with hex

2018-07-02 22:40:35 UTC  

Maybe

2018-07-02 22:40:43 UTC  

But oof

2018-07-02 22:41:15 UTC  

Would definitely make things more complicated

2018-07-02 22:41:30 UTC  

yea the conversion would suck, but hex numbering could have a lot of advantages

2018-07-02 22:41:45 UTC  

It would make big numbers a lot weirder to display

2018-07-02 22:41:55 UTC  

Also multiplication

2018-07-02 22:42:01 UTC  

metric is for people who are too stupid to convert numbers

2018-07-02 22:42:12 UTC  

I like how there's people from all around the world here so it's like always nighttime here :3

2018-07-02 22:42:28 UTC  

@Deleted User which is why everyone except America, Liberia and Myanmar are using it?

2018-07-02 22:42:35 UTC  

Myanmar high IQ country confirmed?

2018-07-02 22:42:46 UTC  

@Ruggwain smarter than roaches

2018-07-02 22:42:53 UTC  

@Ruggwain If we started with hex we wouldn't have number like "4GD54". We would just have 16 different math symbols

2018-07-02 22:43:04 UTC  

And we would be used to it

2018-07-02 22:43:05 UTC  

@Baraban obviously

2018-07-02 22:43:27 UTC  

So why would big numbers be harder to display?

2018-07-02 22:43:41 UTC  

The absence of E

2018-07-02 22:43:57 UTC  

Absence of E?

2018-07-02 22:44:03 UTC  

X×10E1

2018-07-02 22:44:11 UTC  

with world IQ dropping and schools using common core, I don't see any improvements in mathematics coming anytime soon

2018-07-02 22:44:20 UTC  

Wouldn't it still work?

2018-07-02 22:44:26 UTC  

No

2018-07-02 22:44:48 UTC  

It doesn't work if x10 doesn't mean adding a zero anymore

2018-07-02 22:45:03 UTC  

So it just happens to work the the number we randomly chose?

2018-07-02 22:45:05 UTC  

In this universe it would be something like X×16E1

2018-07-02 22:45:10 UTC  

But that would fuck over so much

2018-07-02 22:45:31 UTC  

all numbering systems have the ability to scale. it just feels weird because base 10 is so rooted in us

2018-07-02 22:46:24 UTC  

base 16 is better tho

2018-07-02 22:46:34 UTC  

I have to learn different bases for my degree

2018-07-02 22:46:43 UTC  

Well regardless you could always just say 5e10 means 50,000,000,000

2018-07-02 22:46:49 UTC  

I study informatics so I use base 2, 4 and 16 all the time