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Old 01-11-2018, 12:44 AM   #38515
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Originally Posted by cjd View Post
Base 8 is superior for humans, one can easily count to 24 (yes, that's base 10…) with the digits on two average hands.
Octal? Please explain.

A friend of mine once argued we should be using base-6 for many reasons, one being we could use each hand for a digit and thus count to 35d with two hands.

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