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What thing are you exponentially more experienced in than the average person?
  • I am exponentially more experienced at swimming than the average person.

    I'm actually a pretty average swimmer, so in this case the exponent is zero.

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  • It's not fundamentally easier to do calculations in base 10. It's only easier for us because that's what we learn as children.

    If our number system was based on a superior base, like dozenal or senary, we would be able to do calculations on that base easily and would find working in tens awkward.

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  • Base 6 however is perfect for 2 hands with 5 fingers each. You can easily represent the six possible digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 on each hand, and can therefore comfortably count to 55 (decimal 35) with two hands, using our familiar place-value numeral system.

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  • Mind you, regarding the sun being green, it's worth noting this observation from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien's_displacement_law

    The effective temperature of the Sun is 5778 Kelvin. Using Wien's law, one finds a peak emission per nanometer (of wavelength) at a wavelength of about 500 nm, in the green portion of the spectrum near the peak sensitivity of the human eye.

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