The Whole World Should Use Base 24

[neos300]

-scratch that wikipedia say's I'm wrong, seconds are arbitrary-

[Negrul1]

[QUOTE=neos300;35292788]I'm pretty sure hours, minutes, and seconds have astronomical significance.[/QUOTE]

Don't think so, and even if they do there's no real reason why they should.

[Krinkels]

[QUOTE=neos300;35292788]I'm pretty sure hours, minutes, and seconds have astronomical significance.[/QUOTE]

Time Cube.

[MightyMax]

what the fuck is going on in here.

im going to have a seizure.

[cardfan212]

Let's use base 1. Problem solved.

[zenby]

There are plenty of cultures that with more than their fingers. Some use every almost every distinct feature of the human body and use like, base 38 :v:

[Capitulazyguy]

In base 24, 10/5=4.j4 rrecurring.

[AlienCat]

Well what would the numbers look like in base 24?

[QUOTE=Upgrade123;35292632]The Babylonians used base 60.[/QUOTE]
Really? They have to be 6 persons then every time they count on the fingers.

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;35293489]In base 24, 10/5=4.j4 rrecurring.[/QUOTE]

yeah I kind of prefer base 10

mainly because 1,000,000 in base 10 is 3082G in base 24, and using letters in mathematics when it's not a constant like e or a variable like x just doesn't sit well with me

[editline]25th March 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=AlienCat;35293534]Well what would the numbers look like in base 24?

Really? They have to be 6 persons then every time they count on the fingers.[/QUOTE]

In base 10:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

In base 24:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N 10

[Thoughtless]

[QUOTE=Protocol7;35293558]yeah I kind of prefer base 10

mainly because 1,000,000 in base 10 is 3082G in base 24, and using letters in mathematics when it's not a constant like e or a variable like x just doesn't sit well with me

[editline]25th March 2012[/editline]

In base 10:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

In base 24:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N 10[/QUOTE]

Numbers are just symbols, it doesn't have to be alphabetical letter, you could invent symbols.

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=Thoughtless;35293872]Numbers are just symbols, it doesn't have to be alphabetical letter, you could invent symbols.[/QUOTE]

That would be so counterintuitive and the cost to replace current equipment would be so great that it's just a stupid idea.

That's why we're still in the Imperial system in the US. All the cars would need new dashboards, new signs on the roads, new measuring equipment, et cetera.

[Sarge46]

[QUOTE=neos300;35292788]-scratch that wikipedia say's I'm wrong, seconds are arbitrary-[/QUOTE]

Seconds are based of a radioactive decay of an element, isn't it? Or at least now that we can measure radioactive decay.

[Killuah]

Actually the babylonians counted base 60 with their fingers too, they used the parts of the fingers.

But nice parody thread.

[Skellyhell]

imagine the size of keyboards, having to incorporate all those extra numbers

would be good for bank PINs though

[SNNS-SEAN]

[QUOTE=Skellyhell;35294762]imagine the size of keyboards, having to incorporate all those extra numbers

would be good for bank PINs though[/QUOTE]

Smaller keys? Different keyboard shape?

[20k]

[QUOTE=Sonydude;35294306]Seconds are based of a radioactive decay of an element, isn't it? Or at least now that we can measure radioactive decay.[/QUOTE]

"the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."

[DarkendSky]

Yeah, lets completely change the way we count. That's a great idea. Because it's so hard memorize 1/3 = .33, right?

[Upgrade123]

Let's just use base 10000
[img]http://www.laputanlogic.com/images/2004/05/11-YHQT8ENY00.jpe[/img]

[pebkac]

Base 12 would actually be better, you still get many factors (1,2,3,4,6,12) and the number of symbols wouldn't get unwieldy. But changing the bases we use by default for all our math would be pointless, there's no real need for it and pretty much everyone uses base 10 already.

[QUOTE=rosthouse;35288232]People think in base 10. It's the easiest way for us.[/QUOTE]

It's the easiest way for us because that's what they teach us from the very beginning, not because 10 has some special significance for humans. If all they taught you was, say, base 5 or 6, you would be able to do arithmetic with them just as easily, since all the algorithms are the same as in base 10, just the digits are different.