Is your issue with metric, or with the fact that everything in life uses a base 10 (which should really be called a base 9+1) system?
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VoterFrog@lemmy.world 1 month agoHopefully they’d come up with a better numbering system than base 10. Base 10 is the worst part of metric tbh.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Uruanna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every base is base 10 dumdum
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s true. It should really be referenced by the number before 10 (e.g. Base 9).
scrollo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Woah, I had never considered that. To think, all these years I was on the side of “initial index is 1.” I’ve unknowingly been using “initial index is 0,” since I started using numbers.
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merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
IMO it should be called “base 9+1”. It is a “base 10” system because each order of magnitude is 10x as big as the previous one. But, the key thing is to know which digit is the last one before you roll over.