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		zeteo on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter... 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).

eru on Feb 9, 2011 [–]

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.

zeteo on Feb 9, 2011 | [–]

Oh no, I just knew someone would come and argue for balanced n-ary on this thread :)

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