In binary it’s 0.101 + 0.0011 + 1.000111, or laid out vertically:
0.101
0.0011
1.000111
=
1.111011
Halving numbers is no harder than decimating them, probably easier for most of us. Even computer scientists don’t think of base-10 as The Way The Truth and The Light; they use base-2 or base-16 for various things.
Decimal/base-ten is fine as a convention, but insisting that One Convention is perfect and others are heretical is stupid.
halving is a really easy mental operation; we do it all the time mentally and with physical things like bits of food or drink or folding a piece of paper
Let me ask you something in return: do you think you can’t use fractions with metric? If you prefer fractions, that’s fine, but you haven’t justified why it’s better to use a system of measurement based on vibes.
Those are so easily commensurable! It’s 1 and 59/64 obv.
It’s set up to make this easy.
Let me ask: do you think people have usedit for hundreds of years for no reason?
I legit can’t tell if this is sarcasm.
It’s redditor big-brain posturing.
In binary it’s 0.101 + 0.0011 + 1.000111, or laid out vertically:
Halving numbers is no harder than decimating them, probably easier for most of us. Even computer scientists don’t think of base-10 as The Way The Truth and The Light; they use base-2 or base-16 for various things.
Decimal/base-ten is fine as a convention, but insisting that One Convention is perfect and others are heretical is stupid.
You do you, but if you’re reverting to binary to explain how simple it is to add values together, I think you’ve made a wrong turn somewhere.
halving is a really easy mental operation; we do it all the time mentally and with physical things like bits of food or drink or folding a piece of paper
Let me ask you something in return: do you think you can’t use fractions with metric? If you prefer fractions, that’s fine, but you haven’t justified why it’s better to use a system of measurement based on vibes.
1/4" = 0.25" 1/4mm = 0.25mm
Let me also ask, do you think the rest of the world moved away from it for no reason?