[QUOTE=muffinmastah;27971762]Its a simple base number, don't question it.[/QUOTE]
But it's only simple for us to understand because we have ten fingers v:v:v
[QUOTE=Faren;27886865]Because we have 10 digits on our hands.[/QUOTE]
Most people I know has fingers on their hands.
[QUOTE=Pnukup;27971911]Most people I know has fingers on their hands.[/QUOTE]
digit (djt)
1. Anatomy A jointed body part at the end of the limbs of many vertebrates. The limbs of primates end in five digits, while the limbs of horses end in a single digit that terminates in a hoof. The fingers and toes are digits in humans.
v:v:v
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;27971954]any number can be divided by any number :downs:[/QUOTE]
Fuck your shit, I'll throw 0s at you.
Now start dividing.
I suspect because:
10 10's = 100
10 100's = 1000
10 1000's = 10000
etc.
Whereas:
8 8's = 16
8 16's = 128
8 128's = 1024
etc.
Obviously, the use of 10 is much easier to use and much more 'tidy'.
[QUOTE=David29;27971984]I suspect because:
10 10's = 100
10 100's = 1000
10 1000's = 10000
etc.
Whereas:
8 8's = 16
8 16's = 128
8 128's = 1024
etc.
Obviously, the use of 10 is much easier to use and much more 'tidy'.[/QUOTE]
Now start counting in base 8 and...
8 becomes 10
10 10's = 100
10 100's = 1000
10 1000's = 10000
etc.
Fuck your shit, I can count in octal.
[QUOTE=David29;27971984]I suspect because:
10 10's = 100
10 100's = 1000
10 1000's = 10000
etc.
Whereas:
8 8's = 16
8 16's = 128
8 128's = 1024
etc.
Obviously, the use of 10 is much easier to use and much more 'tidy'.[/QUOTE]
10*10 = 100 in any integer base.
[editline]10th February 2011[/editline]
With the obvious exception of the unary system because you already have 2 symbols there
In danish there is still remnants of the base 20 system (called vigesimal). For example, the danish word for 50 is "Halvtreds" which is a contraction of "Halvtredsindstyve" meaning "3 minus a half twentieths".
I wish we had 16 fingers, base 16 would be so awesome to be able to think in, it'd make computers much easier to understand and it's a square number too so some maths would be easier.
[editline]11th February 2011[/editline]
By the way you can count in binary on your fingers up to 1023.
A finger that is down counts as a 0, a finger that is up counts as a 1.
It's actually pretty useful for counting large things, not quit eup to 1023, but around say the 50 mark.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base]Base Phi[/url] is where it's at.
[QUOTE=Cookieeater;27886640]As today, since we use the Arabic numerals, we count a 10 as a 1 with a 0 at the end. As 2 10's added together, we replace the 1 with a 2 because we have two 10's instead of one 10's and we add the 0 at the end.
This is the value of 10 summarized in slashes.
- - - - - - - - - -
I don't see anything significant or orderly about that.
Here is my question though, is there really anything special about 10's? Whose to say that the amount of 10 should be the time to add a zero at the end? What if it was a 5, and whenever you counted from 1 to 5, the number 5 would signal a new zero at the end, and the leading digit would revert back to 1. So a value of our 5 would equal a 10 my system, since the leading digit counts how many 5's there are. Or a value of our 10 would equal a 20 in my system. As we all know, the Roman's didn't see the value of 10 as a orderly number. Our tally marks don't see 10 as an orderly number, since we organize our tally marks by fives and whenever we need more space, we just make another tally mark. Whenever we see a crazy statistic for example, the world will end in 1,000,000 years, should we be shocked at the coincidence, or should we view it as another number?
Please correct me if i'm wrong, and if there is something behind those 10's.[/QUOTE]
Simple answer: because we have 10 fingers.
If we actually used a larger than base 10 system, we'd probably make up cool symbols for those numbers instead of using letters
[editline]10th February 2011[/editline]
also computer keyboards
1-9, 0
Have you ever wondered why do we have a base-10 counting system, but base-12 time and angle systems?
60*60*24 seconds a day.
360 degrees a circle.
[QUOTE=Voice of Reason;27886736]Base 10 is arguably the simplest way of doing... Well, anything involving numbers, really.
OP, you're just speculating what would happen if base 10 was never invented and instead we were working with base 8 or 6 or whatever.
Hexadecimal is base 16 (1, 2, 3... 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e, f, 10, 11, ... 19, 1a, 1b...)
Binary is base 2 (0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000...)[/QUOTE]
Base 10 is not the simplest way of doing it, it is just [b]one[/b] way of doing it and the reason for the base being 10 is you got 10 fingers. The simplest thing is base 2 obviously, since it's the smallest base and therefore most simple. Just because you are used to "10" (because you got taught to do so and because you got 10 fingers) doesn't make it the simplest way.
[QUOTE=Nikita;27973257]Have you ever wondered why do we have a base-10 counting system, but base-12 time and angle systems?
60*60*24 seconds a day.
360 degrees a circle.[/QUOTE]
Babylonians.
[QUOTE=Nikita;27973257]Have you ever wondered why do we have a base-10 counting system, but base-12 time and angle systems?
60*60*24 seconds a day.
360 degrees a circle.[/QUOTE]
A year would be easy to approximate as 360 days and a month as 30 days. I don't know if that's the historical basis behind base-60 but I suppose it'd make sense.
I'm a big fan of Base 1
[QUOTE=Psychopath12;27886966]All numerals 0-9 were created to represent numeric values, when they were conceived, the idea of "ten" was what sort of spawned the creation of those symbols. Had we only had eight, I doubt that 9 would have any significance aside from being some alien symbol to us.
I just realized that most if not all of the world uses base 10 for counting, imagine how fucked up communication could get if there was not only a language barrier, but a numeric barrier. Heads would roll.
And what the hell would we call "69" if 9 didn't exist?[/QUOTE]
some tribes have number systems from one to 20, and then all the numbers beyond that are just called, "more than twenty"
[QUOTE=noctune9;27972540][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base]Base Phi[/url] is where it's at.[/QUOTE]
I read through it and my mind was full of fuck.
all this numbering system talk reminds me of my computer science teacher. hes straight up indian (with a heavy accent) and is teaching us hexadecimal, decimal, and binary numbering systems and all the stuff related. i cant just get his voice out of his head when i think of numbers, its so hilarious sitting in class with him.
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