Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
by kiriakasis on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:07AM
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He is saying that you need twelve digits to actually use base 12 and that in every base N with N>1 you write N as 10 (eg in hex 10 is A and 16 is 10)
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
by bnjms on Saturday November 17, 2018 @01:41PM
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Understood, his mistake was this “base 12, would not act like 12 does in base 10". That statement is mistaken. A dozen would look like ‘10’ but it would still behave like a dozen.