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So what do we do when we get to base 10? Do we use A, B, C, etc? No: Numbers larger than about 3.6 million are simply illegal.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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Finally, a system that uses more information to express less information.
According to this article, the factoradical system gets efficient for numbers larger than 20!, but i guess this here is a shining example of ~~less is~~ more is less
It begins to improve related to regular base-10 after, well, 10!, but it takes a while to recover for lower base numbers before that.