XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/1/24 13:59, Farley Flud wrote:   
   > Here is a problem for Physfitfreak:   
   >   
   > Of all the number bases, both rational (integer) and irrational,   
   > which one is optimal for expressing numbers?   
   >   
   > By optimal, it is meant the base that requires the least digits   
   > (on average) to express all numbers.   
   >   
   > It is an interesting problems and directly related to computer   
   > architecture and hence to GNU/Linux because GNU/Linux is the only   
   > OS that does not eschew computing fundamentals.   
   >   
   > The unavoidable lurkers can only gawk briefly with their mouths   
   > hanging open, shrug, and then return to their demented games.   
   >   
   > Lurkers are lackeys.   
   >   
   > Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   In an absolute way? Disregarding unrelated limitations?   
      
   Then that base would be infinity :) Then any real and complex number   
   will be expressed in just one digit :)   
      
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