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[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Honnest answer, 1/2 in DEC is 0.5 easy. 1/2 in base 13 is .6666666666.... Easy but ugly. You want a base that has comon fractions easily represented by decimals. People like dozenal since many fractions are easily represented. 1/2 = 0.6, 1/3 = 0.4, 1/4 = 0.3

I'm personally a fan of hexidecimal partly because I'm a programmer and partially because it can be halved several times

[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

it's almost like you'd have to use a different notation system to express a different base...

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, because the 5 in your answer is thinking in decimal. 0.05 is not the half of 0.1 in base 13.

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