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Every base is base 10 (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by realitista to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Billions of years ago, our collective great-great-great-[several million more]-grandparent evolved a fin with a five bone structure. That idiot didn't know anything about common denominators, and now we're stuck with this numeric system that can't divide things into thirds without causing issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Vertebrates appeared less than a billion years ago.