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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by zeteo on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:56PM (#2195488)
But 12 only gains you one more factor that's not a power of 2, and is 30 times more difficult to implement (operation tables have 144 cells for base 12, compared to 4 cells for base 2).
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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by eru on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @09:15PM (#2195962)
That's why you should use the digits -n/2 to +n/2 for base n. That shrinks the tables by a factor of four.
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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by zeteo on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @11:02PM (#2196232)
Oh no, I just knew someone would come and argue for balanced n-ary on this thread :)
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