Strange rounding problem
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sat Mar 15 15:46:48 EST 2003
Jp Calderone wrote:
> 15 is the next best base after 10, and 30 after that. Of course, no
> base
> can exactly represent any fraction, and this doesn't even take into
> consideration bases which are, themselves, fractional ;)
The traditional "next best" base after 10 will be 12. That's why our
clocks divide time into 12-hour chunks (well, two of them, so it's 24),
etc. Next after that is 60, for equally obvious reasons.
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