ar-nelsonon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Roman Finger Counting”
This video convinced me that base 6 would be even better for simple pen-and-paper math, as well as just about everything else: link to this video
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- Presented by jan Misali
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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jan Misali presents a humorous yet mathematical case for why base 6 is superior to decimal and duodecimal systems.
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3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an entertaining and educational explanation of alternative number bases, specifically comparing base 6, 10, and 12.
jodrellblankon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal number system”
Time to link the ConLang Critic's video "A better way to count" where he compares decimal and dozenal (base12) with seximal (base6) and base 6 wins. link to this video One of the best videos of number-base related comedy.
jodrellblankon Hacker News • Recommends
On “International System of Units overhauled in historic vote”
Why are you so obsessed with thirds? If you care about short, clean fractions on a human scale, base 6 is overall better, see this table: link to this video Plus you get all the convenience of having five digits on a hand and 5 as the highest counting digit, so you can count to 55 on two hands, and all the rest of the benefits in that (totally serious) video.
cjhvealon Hacker News • Recommends
On “My Love Affair with Dozens (1972) [pdf]”
One of my favorite language Youtubers, jan Misali, has an interesting video on Dozenal and "Seximal" (base 6) number systems. link to this video
jodrellblankon Hacker News • Mentions
On “We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes”
…using Greek letters then there's no association between the X looking letter and the number ten, so maybe you can write ten with the Greek letter delta instead. And all you really need to learn is those 'two new digits' and you're ready to use dozenal." - Jan Misali in his comedy video on why base 6 is a better way to count than base 12 or base 10 link to this video (which is a pisstake and ends up making the point that Base 10 isn't so bad). ("in dozenal, a seventh is written as 0.186X35 recurring because it's equal to one gross eight dozen ten great gross ten gross three doze…