Alright /sci/ Ideally, which number base system should we be using?

>>8832367
p adics, that way we can figure out prime numbers easier. you can just count them. :^)

>>8832367
/What is this?

Base avogadro's constant

>>8832367
We should not limit ourselves to a single numbering base system and use whatever is appropriate.

>>8832367
In the vast majority of cases, the choice of number base is basically inconsequential.
In the few cases where it actually does matter, we already use relevant bases eg: base 16 in software.

hexadecimal.

your mom

Base 69 xdddddddddddddddd

>>8833142
Its a lot easier to mentally do conversions between some bases than others though. For example hex to octal is just splitting every digit in 2. Converting decimal to hex, octal, binary etc is mentally more work because the digits don't line up in a simple way.

I think we should be using octal. It's close enough to decimal and would make conversions to hex and binary easier for people.

>>8833320
Octal is the worst base. Nobody likes octal.

>For example hex to octal is just splitting every digit in 2.
Uh, you might want to double check that.
Hex to quaternary would just by splitting every digit in two.

>>8832367
Base 1

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>>8832367
Base 12

All you faggots using whole number bases instead of some godly shit like 3/32

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>>8833516
>he still uses numbers as bases instead of indeterminates
If you haven't at LEAST done some generatingfunctionology, you haven't done any math at all.

>>8832367
Horses for courses.

base i

Base pi

Base -1/12

i don't care, but make it logarithmic

>>8833501
Finally someone got it right

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>>8832367
Base 64

>anon still uses numbers

God, I fucking hate undergrads.

>>8835352
Basically this.

>>8835352
>what is number theory

>>8835426
Umm, just a theory, i.e. not proven/all in someone's head.

Jesus some people are dense.

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>>8835341
>brain assplodes

>>8835426

Oddly enough it doesn't use numbers, just successions of unity. Numbers are a shortcut so we don't have to say "one and another one and another one and another one..."