This is really more of a mathematical discussion than scientific, but could be closely related.
Personally I often wonder what would be different if we counted base 7/5/9/... instead of base 10
for example instead of this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
we counted:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
it would throw off what we know about how we count, but would it affect mathematical equations?
8*8=64 standard
base 2 and 16 are easily found online as we use these as standards in memory allocation...
but base 8 would be 100 which would still be 80 in standard counting
what do you guys think? is there a number that would be more effective or useful than base 10 for mathematics or counting?
Personally I often wonder what would be different if we counted base 7/5/9/... instead of base 10
for example instead of this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
we counted:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
it would throw off what we know about how we count, but would it affect mathematical equations?
8*8=64 standard
base 2 and 16 are easily found online as we use these as standards in memory allocation...
but base 8 would be 100 which would still be 80 in standard counting
what do you guys think? is there a number that would be more effective or useful than base 10 for mathematics or counting?