Why use other bases when programming [closed]
- by JMD
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Why use other number bases when programming
My coworkers and I have been bending our minds to figuring out why anyone would go out of their way to program numbers in a base other than base 10.
I suggested that perhaps you could optimize longer equations by putting the variables in the correct base you are working with (for instance, if you have only sets of 5 of something with no remainders you could use base 5), but I'm not sure if that's true.
Any thoughts?