having to call Iıııııı a stack in real life might actually obliterate me

Revisiting this video again because its one of if not my favorite video om this platform

We'd need a better way of writing them. I already struggle enough with writing words that have several i, t, and l near each other without accidentally making one the wrong height because the muscle movements queued up in my brain got mixed with others in the queue.

base IIIIIIIIII is the best

when you said "binary" i went to the description to see if the video was released on April 1st

guy at the beginning sounds like technoblade (may his soul rest in peace)

44:21 11 LIMIT JI MENTIONED

40:40 i want to appreciate quickly the composer using 7-limit JI with the note corresponding to the numbers harmonic :3

I'm gonna be real the hand counting bit a little silly. Hand counting isn't positional, nobody is going to do binary counting on fingers because whole point is to just *count the fingers*, you don't need all 10 for that lol

btw there is a divisibility rule for 7: taking out the units digit of a number, doubling it, and subtracting it from the original number and repeating it till we get a small number which we can tell if it is divisible by seven or not, if it is then the original number is also divisble by 7

This is just like 11111000000

I was very hesitant to begin with, but with your additions I'm inclined to agree. I think I still prefer seximal finger counting, but just using three fingers isn't too bad.

59:11 idk about 2^512, but 2^1024 should be “double”

Things heating up in the counting fandom

I think base 8 is the best because you can divide it more than once and it's not too big like base 16 is. note: this was made before watching the video

I bet a recut version just comparing binary to decimal would likely get to 9 decimal digit view count

Hexadecimal which is base 16 is the best form of counting, as it allows one to easily see the binary digits inside each hex digit

stop calling them arabic, just because muslims conquered and stole does not mean the concepts arabic.

the "musical" thing playing each digit is rather annoying. it's like having a bell that plays to notify me i should subscribe, except it plays multiple times.

Extending the names because I'm bored 2^2^0 two 2^2^1 four 2^2^2 hex 2^2^3 byte 2^2^4 short 2^2^5 int 2^2^6 long 2^2^7 overlong 2^2^8 twoplex 2^2^9 fourplex 2^2^10 hekplex 2^2^11 byteplex 2^2^12 shortplex 2^2^13 interplex 2^2^14 longplex 2^2^15 ovlongplex 2^2^16 twoplexian

I added, multiplied, divided and subtracted the same two 4_10 digit numbers in base 2 with your writing convention and base 6, having tried none of the two before and while with base 6 I was slightly faster than with base 10, with base 2 I was almost twice as slow (and I made errors while calculating). I think that is mainly due to how much effort goes into writing down the numbers even with your convention (in slightly more optimized as I used the cells on my sheet for groups of three instead of a line). I think, this problem would be solved, if there was an easy way to write down multiple digits without lifting the pen/weird zig-zag movement and while maintaining the ability for calculations with 1-4 digits at the same time (and crucially: maintaining the ability to shift the number by one digit without much effort), this would greatly improve the usability of base 2. Another problem is, that the current system is a nightmare for people with dyslexia, I believe (I haven't confirmed this yet but for a system that uses similar ideas compared to your base 2 notation a dyslexic person described the problem with such similar numbers in the comments). So I would be really interested to see a base 2 writing system, that tackles those issues.

My hot take is that base ten is actually the best base, regardless of historical considerations

I cant believe this guy has over 5k subs with 2 videos major respect

The only part that I’m not super convinced by is the naming of the numbers but I’m sure there is a less clunky way to do so than is presented in the video. Although I do still think base 6 is a very nice base. And I also still do have an affinity to base 10 due to both it’s tradition and the decimal expansion of division by 7, it’s just so pretty.

"leafy jumped the furthest, with a whopping two four two byte three four hex two four three miles"

8:20 i am going to find out what that says, trust me

I’d love some type of math workbook in binary to accompany this video, seems like I’ll need to practice a lot but this video has convinced me to give it a shot

Bro, there are no numbers in math anymore. And for calculations, use a fricking calculator... in any base its instantaneous.

I’m going to continue to disagree with this

God has 10 fingers

Really, I think this is my favorite video on youtube, it throws at us an idea that seems so absurd it makes you think he's just baiting, but no, the video is actually saying that binary is the best base for humans, and the most amazing thing is how strong are the arguments shown. Like, in every aspect you could think of comparing bases he makes undeniable proof that binary is the best one by far. He is not overlooking anything, he answers everything that made the idea seems so bad in the first place. It really makes you think that a world using base 2 would be an utopia. One single video changed my mind from thinking that base 2 is unusable for humans to thinking that all development in society is severely slowed down by not using base 2, it felt like discovering ths truth about the universe Thx for the video. Really.

Base 1 🗿

Vihart fans rise up

01000 01001

I’ve been counting binary on my fingers for a long time (but no thumbs because 8-bit is plenty) but sometimes I use my thumb to point to the different joints on my hand and I count in base 16 with one hand as a digit, they both allow me to count to 255 because 4 binary digits converts directly to 1 hex digit

Drama in the black background white text youtuber community

im going to start finding square roots by converting to binary and converting back

ive legit been counted with my fingers like that since 4th grade before I say any math videos on youtube. ive been fascinated that you can count up to 1023 with just fingers. edit: me and my friends have started using "4" or "128" or "132" as insults to each other when teachers are around, only true finger counters understand it.

what if we didn't use a "base x" system but made an entirely new way of thinking about numbers?

using bars would be so fast to write, especially compared to 7 where you end going backwards

This is a copy of a reply that I posted elsewhere, but I’d like to make it its own comment. My main problem with binary naming schemes is the broken relationship between numerals and names. Consider four hundred seventy and four thousand seven hundred. Before your brain knows what the values are, it will know what numerals are prominent within the number, and you can instantly gauge the difference between numbers that are separated by factors of the base. In binary, multiplying by a power of 2 will completely change the name of the number, and you have to look at the whole number to figure out how each '1' contributes to the name. Ultimately, this broken association is fatal for binary as a human system, because memory requires association, and binary’s hyper efficiency works against it. Having said that, you can just use quaternary. In spite of what the video implies, redundant information is not equivalent to wasted information. The association between name and numerals helps carry that extra information. Even the leading digit yields useful information about the parity of the number’s bit length, and if you use numerals that keep the binary information explicit, you can treat binary as a feature of quaternary rather than vice versa.

miss me with that "overlong" and "byteplex" its quad and hash for me

Excellent video

0:25 what am i getting myself into

16 is best but my opinion might just be based

16 is best but my opinion might just be based

Dude shut the fuck up. They are numbers. Stop trying to be deep.

I'll just stick with base 16...

no cock like horsecock

The worst way to count is *base e^i*pi*