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      1 year ago

      Yep. In computer science you sometimes need to calculate with hexadecimal numbers where 10-15 are the letters A-F. You just use another factor for scaling “easily”.

      In hexadecimal 10 is 16 in decimal. So if you do C * 10 it’s C0 but that is 192 in decimal (12 * 16, remember the base is 16).

      Whats cool though is that (all hexadecimal):

      10 / 2 = 8

      10 is 2 to the power of 4 which means 10 is divisible by 2 4 times.

      Similarly (and arguably even cooler) with a base 12 system 10 is divisible by 2 AND 3!

      10 / 3 = 4
      10 / 2 = 6