Strange rounding problem

[xtian]

danb_83 at yahoo.com (Dan Bishop) wrote in message news:<ad052e5c.0303160138.5f2149aa at posting.google.com>...
> Imho, 6 would be better than either 10 or 14, because for any
> sufficiently large finite range of integers, there are more multiples
> of 3 than multiples of 5 and 7.
> 
> If we define the utility of a number base as proportional to the
> number of its factors (excluding itself), and inversely proportional
> to the magnitude of those factors (and use the Python script at the
> end of this message to calculate those factors), we find that the best
> bases are 12 (1.562), 6 (1.500), and 24 (1.361), and that bases 14,
> 21, 22, 25-28, and 32-35 are worse than the prime bases.
> 

OT (although arguably no more than the other stuff immediately before
in the thread ;)- I found this discussion of the benefits of number
systems based on what the author terms versatile numbers very
interesting:
http://www.earth360.com/math-versatile.html

cheers,
xtian