The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy

Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by ecopoesis on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:49AM (#12643748)

Base 10 can be explained rationally. Look at your hands. See those pointed bits? Count them. Now do you understand why use base 10?

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by jcranmer on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:49AM (#12644245)

Look at your knuckles. You have 8 knuckles. Therefore, use base 8.

You can put each finger in an up, down, or medial state, except the two thumbs which give only up or down. That gives base 28.

You can count binary on your fingers as a positional number system. That's base 2.

Base 10 is not the only base that's usable on our dexterous digits.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:27PM (#12646440)

> Look at your knuckles. You have 8 knuckles.

If you have all fingers on one hand, the thumb of the other hand, and the last joint of each of the remaining fingers removed, sure.

But 28 is the usual number of knuckles.

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