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

>infomatics
lel

@Baraban that'z not what it means though

That's just a definition

@Deleted User that's how it's called here

>infomatics
>not a joke

@Baraban the reason why it's like that is because 10^5 = 10000

I know

the hardest part of a base2 multiplied math like hex or octal is getting used to not being base-10. after that it all seems easy

Not because it's easy to look at and understand

The point is you can have a symbol that dictates the number of 0's

Yee base 2 is a way different beast though

With signed and unsigned

Oof

You would but it would be 16E1 @Baraban

you forgot about signed negative decimal numbers @Ruggwain

🤔 I suppose yes