@Kollins Maybe

Seems like a better number actually

16 would probably be the best

Works great with computers too

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

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

Yeah. Though we couldn't have predicted that

Also metric

Like civilised people

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

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

Maybe

But oof

Would definitely make things more complicated

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

It would make big numbers a lot weirder to display

Also multiplication

metric is for people who are too stupid to convert numbers

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

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

Myanmar high IQ country confirmed?

@Ruggwain smarter than roaches

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

And we would be used to it

@Baraban obviously

So why would big numbers be harder to display?

The absence of E

Absence of E?

X×10E1

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

Wouldn't it still work?

No

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

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

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

But that would fuck over so much

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

base 16 is better tho

I have to learn different bases for my degree

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

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