Base 10 feels so natural and normal for numbers to be because that's what I was taught as a kid so reading about Base 20 is wild, like I just can't comprehend the shit

On a very basic level I do get it but then you show me "100" and tell me that that doesn't mean one hundred, it means another, secret number and I just can't process that

@coriander *looks at english units and measures* none of these motherfuckers are base twenty

@Lady Are most of them even in something you'd call a base?

Like do we measure distance in base 5280?

Follow

@coriander degrees minutes seconds are definitely base 60

things like a yard being three feet of twelve inches of sixteen sixteenths of an inch are definitely more complicated

i think technically the term there might be “mixed base”?

Sign in to participate in the conversation
📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.