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minus-squareAlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoThe French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie 4*20+10+7.
minus-squarewriteblankspace@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoOne of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoDon’t you mean base 10? Also, clearly seximal is the best
minus-squaredatelmd5sum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agocoworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.
minus-squareuis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoBase 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
Base 5 is based
The French used to count in base 20 (so that means both hands and both feet), which is why they read 97 as quatre-vingt-dix-sept, ie
4*20+10+7.One of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.
Don’t you mean base 10?
Also, clearly seximal is the best
coworker taught me this and it blew my mind. I had previously jokingly used base 2 with my hands, but something like 01001 10010 would be difficult to handle.
Base 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
It gets easier with practice