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Friday Fun Thread for August 30, 2024

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This article touts binary (rather than decimal, dozenal, or senary) as the best number system.

If you routinely need to count past 10 on your hands, I highly recommend learning to count in binary. I don't think this is a huge group, though, and decimal is definitely much more compact for doing math on paper

decimal is definitely much more compact for doing math on paper

This concern is addressed in the article. In the author's opinion, comparing "1234" to "100 1101 0010" is unfair, and "|.. ||.| ..|." is comparable in compactness to "1234".

The two binary digits only need to be distinct from each other, not from eight other unused symbols. [Using 0 and 1 for binary] is the equivalent of using Chinese characters to write English, but by just picking twenty-six characters to substitute for Latin letters.