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xkcd #2835: Factorial Numbers (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So what do we do when we get to base 10? Do we use A, B, C, etc? No: Numbers larger than about 3.6 million are simply illegal.

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[–] heavy 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Finally, a system that uses more information to express less information.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to this article, the factoradical system gets efficient for numbers larger than 20!, but i guess this here is a shining example of ~~less is~~ more is less

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It begins to improve related to regular base-10 after, well, 10!, but it takes a while to recover for lower base numbers before that.