/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.15512385]

Why tf are multiplications of 24 so common? I see these numbers everywhere

[Anonymous No.15512386]

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[Anonymous No.15512407]

>>15512386
I'm just asking questions here. Why is every screen resolution divisible by 24? 1080x1920? 3840x2160? 360 degrees in a circle? 24bit 192khz audio?

[Anonymous No.15512412]

>>15512385
The Babylonians were an advanced race seeding Earth with the building blocks of civilization. They abandoned the project for unknown reasons but their influence continues to be seen peppered throughout civilization.

[Anonymous No.15512424]

24 is highly composite, superabundant and a practical number which makes it likely to show up in day to day human applications involving measures or weights.

Consequently multiples of 24 are likely to show up if you are scaling these applications up, and a lot of the nice properties of 24 are also kept by it's multiples, so they are also likely to be used alot.

[Cult of Passion No.15512433]

>>15512385
>72
>144
>240
>360
>432

[Anonymous No.15512437]

>>15512385
Because they're also multiplications of 12.

[Anonymous No.15512438]

>>15512424
Base 10 was a mistake.
>Teeheehee, but anon, hehe, all bases are base 10 in their own base. Teeheehee.
mostly true but useless.

[Anonymous No.15512564]

>>15512438
Explain that picture to us cunt.

[Anonymous No.15512568]

For the same reason there's 24 hours in a day. 24 is a relatively small number with a lot of divisors.

[Anonymous No.15512769]

>>15512564
look up the god damn words on wikipedia yourself brainlet, or are you getting filtered by the concept of a venn diagram

[Anonymous No.15512808]

>>15512438
> base 10
retard

[Anonymous No.15512841]

>>15512437
and those are all multiplications of 6, which is a multiplication of 2

base binary is the the root of all

[Anonymous No.15512848]

>>15512841
>base binary is the the root of all
True + fire

[Anonymous No.15512884]

>>15512769
the other meaning of "odd" makes this hilarious

[Anonymous No.15512891]

>>15512884
Not him but
?

[Anonymous No.15512895]

>>15512891
Mathematicians don't know whether strange queer numbers exist or not

[Anonymous No.15512905]

>>15512895
are you saying weird al is queer?

[Anonymous No.15512991]

>>15512438
>mostly true but useless.
No, it's completely true and useful, just a non sequitur in this case since everyone knows what you mean when you write 10

[Anonymous No.15512996]

>>15512991
If you write "base 10," then everyone knows you're an idiot. Congrats lol

[Anonymous No.15513011]

>>15512996
So what, I should write "base 5+5"? Everyone knows that the "10" is "base 10" is meant to be interpreted in base 10.

[Anonymous No.15513035]

>>15513011
Write "base ten." If you don't write it like that, you're intentionally attracting trolls.

[Anonymous No.15513040]

>>15512385
Rudin.

[Anonymous No.15513051]

>>15513035
Isn't ten=10? Number words are based on digits. How would you say 101 in base 5? "Twenty six", "a hundred and one" or "twentyfive and one"?

[Anonymous No.15513057]

>>15513051
101 in base five: "fifi and one"

[Anonymous No.15513071]

>>15513051
> ten = 10
in english, yes
> ten = 10
in math, no
24 has none of that.

[Anonymous No.15513079]

>>15513057
Ugh lol he's a retard.
In base five, 101 = one 5^2, zero 5^1, one 1

[Anonymous No.15513081]

>>15513079
5 doesn't exist in base five

[Anonymous No.15513092]

>>15513081
the symbol doesn't, the structure certainly does

[Anonymous No.15513097]

>>15513092
What structure? How can you deduce the structure represented by a symbol that doesn't exist?

[Anonymous No.15513118]

>>15513097
There's no ten in base ten, only one and zero.

[Anonymous No.15513147]

>>15512385
Because any multiple of 24 is also a multiple of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12

[Anonymous No.15513238]

>>15513147
How common is it to divide something by 24, 12, 8, or even 6? Wtf.

[Anonymous No.15513286]

>>15512996
Please explain your reason. The term Base 10 seems to be in very common use and I can't find any objections to it anywhere except in your post. Please explain your point of contention and why you believe you're right and everyone else is wrong. Please refrain from name calling and simply explain your reasoning.

[Anonymous No.15513295]

>>15513286
Base 10 describes every base.

[Anonymous No.15513578]

>>15512385
for technology it's more that these numbers come up through groupings of bits. we have data buses of bit width 8, 16, 24, 32, etc, and then they get multiplied.
64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 are not multiples of 24 but are common for similar reasons