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minus-squareBahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoYou dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example). Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.
minus-squareGustephan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYou count up in incremental numbers until you reach 5280 and then finally increment from 0 to 1 miles. That’s base 5280. Just because we didnt invent more symbols to easily represent that does not mean its not a different numeric base.
You dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example).
Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.
You count up in incremental numbers until you reach 5280 and then finally increment from 0 to 1 miles. That’s base 5280. Just because we didnt invent more symbols to easily represent that does not mean its not a different numeric base.