Comments on: Why a Base-10 Number System?

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By: Echka

Echka — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:57:46 +0000

I have a school project about numbers. I thought this site would give me long explanation why we have base 10 system. Instead, this explained more than I need…
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By: John M

John M — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:04:36 +0000

I think that since the U.S. is never ever ever going to go metric, we should just go the whole 9 yards and push for a whole new number system of base twelve. Math would be sooo much easier. Niether 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4 would be repeating duodecimals and multiplication/division would have so many more recognizable patters… sigh. I kind of hate convention when the only reason for it is tradition and laziness.

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By: Craig Lungren

Craig Lungren — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:37:14 +0000

I thought of funny names like Zeroty (00),
Zeroty-One (01), Zeroty-Two (02), Zeroty-Three (03), Zeroty-Four (04), Zeroty-Five (05), Zeroty-Six (06),
Zeroty-Seven (07), Zeroty-Eight (08), and
Zeroty-Nine (09). I also began to think of
Zero Hundred (000), Zero Thousand (0,000),
Zeroty Thousand (00,000), Zero Hundred Thousand (000,000)…and so on. The Bonus names for the hundreds ending in 2 Zeros are: Zero Hundred Zero (000), One Hundred Zero (100), Two Hundred Zero (200), Three Hundred Zero (300), Four Hundred Zero (400), Five Hundred Zero (500), Six Hundred Zero (600), Seven Hundred Zero (700), Eight Hundred Zero (800), Nine Hundred Zero (900), Ten Hundred Zero/
One Thousand Zero (1000/1,000)…and so on. Just remember this whole thing is my own Numeral System Version of Counting, Dividing/Subtracting, Adding/Multiplying, Writing and Spelling in my own way. So don’t tell me that they are NOT real numbers.

By: Craig Lungren

Craig Lungren — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:46:11 +0000

I think Onety sounds better for 10 because it is saying that it is 1 in front of 0. It is just like saying Twenty is 2 in front of 0, Thirty is 3 in front of 0, Fourty (Forty) is 4 in front of 0, Fifty is 5 in front of 0, Sixty is 6 in front of 0, Seventy is 7 in front of 0, Eighty is 8 in front of 0, and Ninety is 9 in front of 0. But then I would say that Tenty is 10 in front of 0 (100), Eleventy is 11 in front of 0 (110), and Twelvety is 12 in front of 0 (120). Note: The suffix -ty is meaning 0 behind another number. The suffix -teen was usually meaning 1 in front of 3-9 for Thirteen to Nineteen. Thanks!

By: chriggy

chriggy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:29:35 +0000

Depends on the language/tool. Each has their own convention.

But it’s especially important in languages like c/c++(the convention is that arrays start at 0), that don’t do things like checking for the bounds of an array. Unlike in a alot if languages that have some sort of protection, in C/C++, going past the end of an array is most likely going to cause a nasty and difficult to track down crash.

Of course, having well documented code helps, but …

By: ClintJCL

ClintJCL — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:27:28 +0000

Chriggy:
Which is? :)

By: chriggy

chriggy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:20:48 +0000

That’s a good idea, and useful if your programs will only ever be by maintained by you. However, the moment you start collaborating with others, or the code may in the future be maintained by somebody else, it’s best to stick with the standard.

By: ClintJCL

ClintJCL — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:01:29 +0000

That why I was taught to never use 0 (when possible), and to save it as a swap space should you need to swap the values between array[5] and array[8] for example:

$array[0] = $array[5]
$array[5] = $array[8]
$array[8] = $array[0]

By: ideonexus

ideonexus — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:36:44 +0000

Very neat! Actually, one of the conceptual problems we have in programming is whether to start counting at 0 or 1 for arrays and lists (in programming, you start counting at 0, but in real life we start with 1, so programming errors translating between the computer and the human using it are common). This cultural difference you’ve pointed out is very interesting!

By: Tira

Tira — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:22:17 +0000

Other cultures such as Japanese do have the ten one making 11 For example Ju is the word for 10 and ichi is one so 11 is ju-ichi
If we want twenty one it would be ni-ju-ichi which is two-ten-one or think of it as 2 tens and one

It makes it so much easier to count.