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Re:Emirp Primes by jey on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:46AM (#19815876)
What's so special about base 10 other than that it's the number of fingers that humans (usually) have?
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Re:Emirp Primes by evanb on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:03AM (#19816191)
Well, it's the base in which we label all other bases. In base twelve, 'base 12'(decimal) is written 'base 10'!

:D

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Re:Emirp Primes by lifthrasiir on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:37AM (#19816086)
It isn't, so OEIS [1] correctly tags this sequence as base-dependent (keyword "base") and has a similar sequence in base 2 [2].

[1] https://oeis.org/A006567

[2] https://oeis.org/A080790

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Re:Emirp Primes by etaioinshrdlu on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:54AM (#19816162)
I do also find the amount of recreational math focused on base 10 to be disproportionate to the interestingness of base 10.
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Re:Emirp Primes by tempguy9999 on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:41AM (#19819388)
Come on, mate, don't tease me with that and not offer your suggestions!

Fractional bases, negative bases, negative fractional bases, base e (supposed to be optimal IIRC), perhaps complex bases, summat weirder?

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Re:Emirp Primes by etaioinshrdlu on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:07PM (#19820764)
The one true number base: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base
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Re:Emirp Primes by LeoPanthera on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:35AM (#19816078)
Nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal

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