Originally posted by Manedew
damn 10 number system, we should have gone with an 8 number system, really are thumbs fingers? would be much more fun 1-2-4- 8-16-32-64-128-256-512 wow isn't that logic .. why's 10 logic cause you have 10 # counting system i guess..
and after all 8 is based on 1 which is why computers use it .. that's logic in my book .. get rid of the 10 number system!
Stop giveing americans crap about not useing metric ...we do .. how do you think we buy our drugs LOL!
stupid people squeaking about metric what do you know ..... nothing .. kinda like me but at least i'll admit it(while pointing out why your wrong).
The system computers use is a binary system. Base 2. We also have a base 8 (octal), the standard base 10 (decimal) and base 16 (hexadecimal).
Funny thing is that you used the decimal system to try to convince us that a base-8 number system is actually the powers of 2, which in turn is really based on 1. Interesting theory
. In reality, the octal system was developed and based on the binary system, with a 3-bit limitation. Therefore, you can only have the numbers 0-7 as valid octal numbers.
so, to count the powers of 2 as far as you did in octal you would have:
1,2,4,10,20,40,100,200,400,1000
Just nitpicking