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"content": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@acsawdey\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>acsawdey</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://digipres.club/@foone\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>foone</span></a></span> noooo no no, not arbitrary 😂 you gotta have highly composite numbers</p><p>Each base-60 digit requires six bits, with a wastage of four redundant values (per every power of 60)</p><p>Now you could use that for error correction, or something else with the extra values — 0 to 59, then 0', 1', 2', 3'</p><p>You’d need 3 x 60-digits (18 bits) to exceed a short variable (32,767) that normally takes 16 bits</p><p>You’d need 6 x 60-digits (36 bits) to exceed a long variable (2 billion etc) that normally takes 32 bits</p><p>But of course the real fun comes in fractions — you need 2 x 60-digits (12 bits) to represent the 100 cents after a dollar, or the 240 old pennies after the “old” pound sterling</p><p>Decimal cents would normally need 7 binary digits on the end or taken off the big numbers, and 8 digits for the old pennies. Each cent would be 36 units of the 60^-2 power, and each oldpenny would be 15 units of the 60^-2. But they could cohabitate! And you could calculate them together.</p><p>Sadly, halfpennies (of the old type) and farthings are too small for this, so if you’re building a computer for use between 1222 and 1961, you’re out of luck.</p><p>(The new halfpennies were fine though — 36 units goes down to 18. They knew better and removed the old farthings and halfpennies from circulation a decade before decimalisation, and this allowed the transition to reuse the halfpenny idea with newpence; by the 1980s they were taken out again, when coins started replacing notes for entire pounds).</p><p><a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/base60\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>base60</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/binary\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>binary</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/bit\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>bit</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/digital\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>digital</span></a></p>",
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