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Base 5 is based
6 0 ReplyThe 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
.7 0 ReplyOne of the reasons why I hate learning French so much.
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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.
1 0 ReplyBase 2 should be easy to add, but it requires effort to convert
2 0 ReplyIt gets easier with practice
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Don't you mean base 10?
Also, clearly seximal is the best
1 0 ReplyBinary is better than seximal, unless you rig the tests.
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