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I think base 8 or base 16 would have been best because it would have the convenience of compactness for typical day to day math yet also be very easy to convert to binary

Hi! Did you create a font for these numbers? I'm looking for one. Also: four bits is a nibble, right? Smart to turn "eight bits" (byte) into " l .... .... " Also: I'd love to see you dive into negative numbers. I think -1 should be represented as infinite "on" values, like a computer does. That way, any negative number is just one more than the inverted version of positive number. (6 = .... .||. and -6 = |||| |.|.) The sign "-" might be repurposed to mean "infinite times |", so -6 would become -.|. Note: every positive number starts with "|" and every negative number smaller than -1 has at least a . after its minus-sign. So you could omit the minus sign for numbers smaller than -2 (-1 could be written as simply a -, but -2 would be the same as 0) Fun fact: all mathematical operations would still work. At least, according to the computer I'm writing this on. How would you pronounce these negative numbers?

Counterpoint: long and short lines become ambiguous lines of medium length with bad enough handwriting. Maybe we should use dots instead of short lines? Or short horizontal lines?

20:15 you forgot about half finger counting, which makes base3 the best for finger counting as one finger can represent 3 values... Basically you're forgetting the fact that finger/hand counting can use different measures than just extended(1) or not (1)...... Examples of different counting methods: original french (which is forgotten by many but is the reason why french is base20, basically half-extension of finger), there's hebrew way (which allows to indicate values from 0 to 12 using one hand), mentioned korean way, Japanese way (similar to korean)... Finger counting isn't just about making subsets from set of fingers... it's about making subsets from set of noticeable features of human hand while also considering (so multiplying) the different states said features may be in (but limiting it to make one state be easily distinguished from other ones)

36:24 Stand upMaths has a great video about divisibility tests, and it, in fact, shows Three separate divisibility tests For the number seven in base ten!

3:21 music?

Binary finger counting la, I'm personally a fan of using my index finger and thumb for binary digits, and the remaining 3 fingers as a base 4 digit. That gets me up to 16 on one hand.

what would you name this writing system? we have "misalian seximal" maybe this could be called "stick binary" or something?

Why do we all forget about base one, the best possible base.

@the best way to count - just read our base 6 site. love it. Regarding temps, 6 has quite a few surprising relationships with Fahrenheit - boiling point of water of 6^3 - 4 degF, freezing point of water is 6^2 - 4 degF, while celcius and fahrenheit crossoverpoint is -6^2 - 4 degF, which means the difference from freezing point is exactly double the square of 6. Here's a very strange equality relationship i discovered where 6 isn't the base but plays a central role : (8^6^4)^864 == 4^6^8 - cute isn't it.

ok sure fine decimal is worse than binary, but hear me out. mixing bases. (the 1st place to the 4th place is binary so 1000 is just normal binary, but then the 5th place can be decimal)

No, it's not the best way. It's only that for programmers and autists. No one intuitively counts in base 2.

i spent an hour to watch about random numbers

I really like this video, and agree with all the points brought up, except that the system of short and tall vertical lines doesn't solve the digit length issue at all. I don't like the verbal system for binary either, it gets long very quickly. I made a system that basically uses mixed radix, using hexadecimal (or tessimal, as I call it to get rid of base 1010 centrism) digits up until the last 1-11 digits, where it switches to binary and quaternary. If I understand information theory correctly, this makes it equally informationally efficient, whilst also being far less strokes and far less digits. I'll post the document link as a reply as youtube often hides comments with links. edit: I watched this video again and understood even more this time, and am now considering if my system sucks because it removes the simplicity of factors and what not. like 11*101001 = 1111011. I don't know, maybe it's fine. It seems that binary is really great but ultimately really hard to use because the numbers get long quickly, and you get lost in a sea of zeroes and ones. it's hard to tell the difference between 10000 and 100000. With separators it becomes a little better, 10,0000 versus 1,0000, but that will still be a problem when you get to really large numbers. I wonder how binary can be represented well.

When it comes to the recurring fraction numbers, why not allow the symbol to be placed before the radix point? for example: r90. this would mean 90.90909090909...

34:54 4+1=?

The fact this is already recommended to me now is criminal

i don't like this notation. we can't put the radix point into an already written number

Why are there no mentions of subtraction here? Subtraction is just as important as the other operations, and much more important than a square root. Ive been messing around with this sort of notation for binary, and subtraction just becomes unreasonable with borrowing like this. Something like 34-13, trivial in both seximal and decimal, is just cumbersome in binary.

This |....|||..... second long video changed my perspective on counting

base(infinite) you never run out of new characters!

based

The background music sounded like Still Alive from Portal.

base (-1 ±i) ;)

is there a link to base off?

extremely painful viewing.

8:17 Took a bit of work but I managed to decipher. Kinda diabolical using such similar characters for A and E. None of the OCRs I tried recognized the E character or a handful of others so I had to manually go over the OCRed result. I was surprised to learn the original comment said "con-langues."

15:25 "Have you cheated?" That wasn't my response at all. Rather "have you said anything meaningful?" So far you just keep telling me "X is true" and then reinforcing it by saying "this person is wrong, this idea is wrong" rather than giving any meaningful reason or proof as to why. "Here's a chart proving it!" What benefit is this chart to me? I legitimately came here to learn something, and so far the video is primarily hostile and spitting in my face, when I haven't done anything to you. Worse, you've used a plethora of words and said almost nothing.

3:15 - Jan Misali said "a better way to count", not "the best way to count", so he wasn't wrong.

I think we should compromise by using base twelve because six times two equals twelve

But 8 is not an additive prime

Beautiful, thanks for making this video.

Is it base 0?

My favourite way to count is base 10!

I was gonna make a joke comment saying “my favourite way to count is binary” but then you actually open with binary I love this

centimal my beloved

i dont regret how i spent these IııIııı minutes

I would like to see a study on people grouped by the base they use and which one does math better

Balanced ternary is best!!!)

I like base 16. Binary takes too much space to write

1:00:20 Personally I'd be okay with reintroducing even more irregularity. Maybe add "eight" and "twelve" so that IX through XVI are pronounced eight one, eight two, eight three, twelve, twelve one, twelve two, twelve three, hex. Or maybe reintroduce all the names "five" through "eight" so that same set is pronounced eight one, eight two, ... eight seven, hex. Also personally, "hex" said during a number already sounds like "reinterpret the number I just said to you as though its digits were hexadecimal," so how about the name "nyb" for XVI?

0:57 _ 0.9

okay but i can't type ı on my keyboard without copy-pasting it.

i thought you were going to say dots and dashes. lines and long lines are not easily distinguishable when written quickly

The divisibility test for 7 in base 10 is based on 7² = 49. 7² + 1 = 5 × 10. From there, you take the last digit of your number, multiply it by 5 and add it to the rest of the original number. If the result is divisible by 7, then so is the original number. Because 5 + 2 =5-(-2)=7, a similar rule can be made by doubling the last digit and subtracting it off from the rest of the number.

I.I.I = 21

34:40 how on earth is B a failing grade

I’m sorry but binary is a horrible choice in reality and for all practical purposes. For one thing, you correctly point out that the compactness of a number representation matters. I could write 255 or 11111111. Most, if not all, people would rather write 3 digits instead of 8. Secondly, don’t get me started on how much of a bad idea it is to model anything after “computers”. There’s no such thing as a single universal “computer” representation of numbers. Otherwise it wouldn’t be such a pain to talk to disparate systems or need encoding rules (BER, DER…). Thirdly, floating point numbers. We avoid their use as much as possible because of the inaccuracy of representing decimals in binary. Totally forget using floats if you write anything safety-critical. So, cool video but nope. Never ever ever ever ever. *cries in software engineering*

This channel was created for this movie…

Here's what counting in binary looks like with your fingers: (you can count to all numbers 0-1,023) ruclips.net/video/8YCjnfC-93Y/видео.htmlsi=j7OmWMzSTY8I-OE5 Or how to do it: ruclips.net/video/NZOr1ZMmHok/видео.htmlsi=Z5tdW6U374E_m_aC