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BASE 24
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| other: 3, 9, 12, 24, 30, 36, 60, more.
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The quadrovigesimal or base-24 system is a numeral system with 24 as its base.
There are 24 hours in a day, so our time keeping system is base-24. See also base 12.
Decimal Equivalent
10 twenty four 24 24
100 ? 24^2 = 576
1000 ? 24^3 = 13 824
10 000 ? 24^4 = 331 776
100 000 ? 24^5 = 7 972 624
1 000 000 ? 24^6 = 191 102 976
The digits used for numerals ten (10) to twenty three (23) may be the letters "A" through to "P" ("I" and "O" are skipped to prevent confusion with the digits 1 and 0 in some typefaces).
Fractions
Quadrovigesimal fractions are usually either very simple
1/2 = 0.C
1/3 = 0.8
1/4 = 0.6
1/6 = 0.4
1/8 = 0.3
1/9 = 0.2G
1/C = 0.2
1/G = 0.1C
1/J = 0.18
or complicated
1/5 = 0.4K4K4K4K... recurring (easily rounded to 0.5 or 0.4K)
1/7 = 0.3A6LDH3A6... recurring
1/A = 0.29E9E9E9... recurring (rounded to 0.2A)
1/B = 0.248HAMKF6D248.. recurring (rounded to 0.24)
1/D = 0.1L795CN3GEJB1L7.. recurring (rounded to 0.1L)
1/P = 0.11111... recurring (rounded to 0.11)
1/11 = 0.0P0P0P... recurring (rounded to 0.0P) (1/(5*5))
As explained in recurring decimals, whenever a fraction is written in "decimal" notation, in any base, the fraction can be expressed exactly (terminates) if and only if all the prime factors of its denominator are also prime factors of the base. Thus, in base-10 (= 2×5) system, fractions whose denominators are made up solely of multiples of 2 and 5 terminate: ¹⁄8 = ¹⁄(2*2*2), ¹⁄20 = ¹⁄(2×2×5), and ¹⁄500 (22×53) can be expressed exactly as 0.125, 0.05, and 0.002 respectively. ¹⁄3 and ¹⁄7, however, recur (0.333... and 0.142857142857...). In the duodecimal (= 2×2×3) system, ¹⁄8 is exact; ¹⁄20 and ¹⁄500 recur because they include 5 as a factor; ¹⁄3 is exact; and ¹⁄7 recurs, just as it does in base 10.
In practical applications, the nuisance of recurring decimals is encountered less often when quadrovigesimal (or duodecimal) notation is used.
However when recurring fractions do occur in quadrovigesimal notation, they sometimes have a very short period when it are numbers containing one o two factors of five as 52 = 25 is adjacent to 24. The other adjacent number, 23 is a prime number. So powers of five look funny in the quadrovigesimal notation :
51 = 5
52 = 11
53 = 55
54 = 121
55 = 5A5
56 = 1331
57 = 5FF5
58 = 14641
The multiples of decimal hundred are 44, 88, CC, GG, LL, 110, etc.
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