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0 pointsoblio4y ago0 comments

> There's no cosmic significance to ten or ten million.

Cosmic? No. But social? For sure. 99.99% of math the layman will encounter is in base 10.

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Picture some American saying there's no point in knowing languages other than English because 99.99% of the people you will encounter know it.

oblioOP4y ago

Thankfully we're slowly getting rid of that abomination and replacing it with something reasonable:

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsoblio4y ago0 comments

> There's no cosmic significance to ten or ten million.

Cosmic? No. But social? For sure. 99.99% of math the layman will encounter is in base 10.

Picture some American saying there's no point in knowing languages other than English because 99.99% of the people you will encounter know it.

oblioOP4y ago

Thankfully we're slowly getting rid of that abomination and replacing it with something reasonable:

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse