Comment on Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)parentComments−zeteo15yBut 12 only gains you one more factor that's not a power of 2, and is 30 times more difficult to implement (operation tables have 144 cells for base 12, compared to 4 cells for base 2).−eru15yThat's why you should use the digits -n/2 to +n/2 for base n. That shrinks the tables by a factor of four.−zeteo15yOh no, I just knew someone would come and argue for balanced n-ary on this thread :)
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But 12 only gains you one more factor that's not a power of 2, and is 30 times more difficult to implement (operation tables have 144 cells for base 12, compared to 4 cells for base 2).
That's why you should use the digits -n/2 to +n/2 for base n. That shrinks the tables by a factor of four.
Oh no, I just knew someone would come and argue for balanced n-ary on this thread :)