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We’d just have to use one of the enormous quantity of non-place valued number systems, the number of which you could easily count without the unnecessary complexity of place values
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Roman Numerals MMXX, bitch, gently caress you
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Imagine a world in which we can only think about quantity through a single and arbitrary representation where a good portion of the people who attempt to learn it don’t due to the amount of upfront work needed to even begin to use it for numbers above nine oh wait
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numberoneposter posted:so would this be like uhhhh a 1 base system??? We only need fractions or decimals when dealing with things that don’t come in discrete units. For example, 2.5 humans is nonsensical because half of a human is not a real state of affairs IRL, unless you’re a statistician. Our choice of what “one” is there isn’t arbitrary. However, when dealing with things like length, time, or volume, our choice of what “one” is IS arbitrary: we can keep chopping up any length finer and finer and we will never get to a single countable thing. So we just call a certain, arbitrary amount of length “one”and we use that to count with. But of course other lengths that don’t come in multiples of that unit length exist, which motivates the use of fractions.
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Burt Sexual posted:I probate you for 10.1 hours ill stop lol
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