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[-] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 6 points 6 months ago

With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago

But not for 1/5

[-] kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago

Big Decimal has brainwashed the population into thinking that 5 is a good number instead of the terrible prime number that it is. It should be clumped in with 7 and 11 as Bad Numbers when you're dealing with anything except for 10s.

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.

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