Is quaternary actually useful for anything in the real world?
Hello.
I am currently inventing a language, and have created a base 4 number system for it. Unfortunately, I am horrible with numbers, even in decimal. So it was a hard slog. But I finally got there.
It would be great if I could know of any practical applications quaternary has (if any), so I can incorporate it into the language and make it more naturalistic. Thanks.
Quaternary is a power of 2 base, and so is pretty closely related to binary. Each quaternary digit corresponds to a group of 2 binary bits, so you can easily convert. For example 100011 -> 10,00,11 -> 2,0,3 -> 203. Computer science uses hexadecimal for essentially the same reason (just grouping bits by 4 rather than 2), so people from this culture might be better with computers.