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Zapp vibes:
Akshully, though…
The thing with base 60 is that 60 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Also, notably, 12. And 10.
It’s pretty trivial to divide anything in base 10 by either 2 or by 5, right? That’s specifically because 10 is divisible by 2 and 5.
But try to divide some nice round number like 10 by 3 and you can’t even represent that in decimal without stating that “oh, and by the way, these threes go on forever.”
Ever wonder why so many things come in dozens? It’s largely because 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4.
10, though? When was the last time you needed to divide things evenly by five? It’s so much more common to want to divide by 3.
So in short, base 60 honestly has some significant benefits over base 10.
But, really, haha “sex”, am I right?
Yeah, but that means I gotta memorize 60 characters for each number in base 60. That ain’t no fun.
me not realising this was a “haha sex” joke because base 60 is actually my favourite base because of these properties
we already use this base for measuring time and angles btw, the numbers are written in base 10 but it’s actually base 60
Well yeah, that’s why we’re still telling time in Babylonian standard base 60. Also you can count to 60 on your fingers if you use finger segments. Really base 10 is some stupid shit. Honestly.
Now invent 60 unique digits
Having a base too big or too small has a lot of problems that i havent seen talked about
