We use base 10 and computers use base 2, aka binary. There are all sorts of number systems and here is another one to think about and it's how Youtube doesn't run out of short urls.
Stuff about Mathematics - this blog was set up for the Mathematicians at my school in Thailand. I migrated the contents when I left, so please excuse any images that didn't make the journey. They are bouncing around somewhere in the blogosphere. Image is from my travels in Argentina, 2013. The beautiful natural geometric patterns found in Humahuaca 2013
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Saturday, 9 April 2016
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