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[–] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's way too long for a week, yeah.

Just to be an insufferable pedant, I would like to point out that a base-60 system would only have one digit from 0 to 59. So technically fewer digits than with our current system to express the same range of values, and as we all know, technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    But you need 60 different symbols. That's what I was referring to

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago (2 children)

    Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, the overall number of extant digits would increase six-fold. I was trying to express the idea that the number of digits in an operation would decrease.

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