Base 10
At the risk of being like Russell, this is what I was thinking in my dream this morning and when I woke up:
Why do we use base 10 and not base 11? It's wierd because it takes n-1 fingers to represent a base n system, right? On ten fingers you can count 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a.
Why do we use base 10 and not base 11? It's wierd because it takes n-1 fingers to represent a base n system, right? On ten fingers you can count 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a.