This video makes a compelling case for base two as optimal (not just for computers, but for humans) which I had dismissed out of hand as unworkable due to the number of digits required. The more compact notation with digit groupings demonstrated gives binary all the advantages of quarternary, octal, or hexadecimal, while binary’s extreme simplicity makes many manual calculation algorithms much easier than even seximal. I’m not convinced the spoken variant is adequate, but perhaps it could be improved upon.
This video makes a compelling case for base two as optimal (not just for computers, but for humans) which I had dismissed out of hand as unworkable due to the number of digits required. The more compact notation with digit groupings demonstrated gives binary all the advantages of quarternary, octal, or hexadecimal, while binary’s extreme simplicity makes many manual calculation algorithms much easier than even seximal. I’m not convinced the spoken variant is adequate, but perhaps it could be improved upon.