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Deceptichum @quokk.au

3w ago

Memopotamia Monday

[Memopotamia Monday] based

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And 10, 15, 20, 30 and technically 60 but that would be silly
- also 12!
  
  But 60 isn't divisible by 479001600
  
  479,001,600?
- And 12

120 is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60 and 120. It's the number with most good shit per unwieldiness ratio.
It's also 5!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number

Naw, we should have used 420 to ensure we can also cleanly divide by 7.
Maybe even 1260 so we can fit a division by 9 in there (420 already has 3 as a prime factor, so only need to go 420 x 3 to get a clean division by 9). I suggest ending there since we could divide by everything up to our number of fingers.
- I was wondering what the lowest number that includes 7 would be
  
  7
- Number of fingers? Pump this numbers up. I can count to 156 using my hands and a modified Babylonian system
  
  And i can count using my hands up to 1023 with the binary system :p
  (gonna look into your system too, then i have more ways to count on me)
  Edit: l like the babylonian system, it looks like a numpad but instead of having a row only for 0 its 10, 11 & 12
  Easy to understand & remember too
  
  Using your modified Babylonian system, I think you can actually make it to 168.
  Using one hand for lower digit and other for higher digit, you can effectively count in base 13 on the higher digit hand to 158 (13 x 12). But you can then count an additional 12 on the lower digit hand leaving you with 158 + 12 => 168.
  
  Using binary you can count to 31 on one hand and 1023 on two.
  And if you don't mind getting carpal tunnel syndrome you can use ternary to count to 242 on one hand and 59048 on two, but you'll probably get cramps.

If your woman is constantly accusing you of thinking about other women... then I highly recommend you think about other women and get the hell out of dodge

Wait till he discovers 100.
- Aren't there fewer for 100? 2, 4, 5, 10, 25, 50
  For 60, it's 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
  
  Metric time.
  If sticking with highly composite numbers, let's go with 180.

& 1
- And zero!

Sexigesimal is bestigesimal

Can the number 7 just fuck off, it's just too hard mathematically. Also if there was an intelligent designer they'd have made pi (元) equal to 3

It is divisable by 2, 3, a number that factors to two, 5, a number that factors to two and three, etc.

Unnecessary conversion factors are cringe.
To illustrate with angle measurements
Degrees require a conversion factor of π/180° to determine arclength.
Radians are unitless & eliminate conversion.
Converting between units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days) requires factors of 60 or 24. Factor 60 is simply a position shift in base-60 but not so neat in base-10. All those arbitrary units for the same dimension (time) are redundant: the only natural unit in the whole scheme is day, and the rest are arbitrary subdivisions. Metric prefixes of SI (eg, micro-, milli-, centi-) with day would simplify base-10 calculations.
Units such as second or day, however, bear no special significance in natural laws, so they complicate the values of physical constants arbitrarily. Natural unit systems of measurement that select units to simplify physical constants to 1 may be the most based systems of all: they eliminate unnecessary factors from physical laws.

I just used my calculator app, and this totally checks out!

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