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They taught us other bases in the 1970s when I was a kid. I wonder if it fell out of favor and then came back?
You could eat cereal on Saturday morning in 1973 while Schoolhouse Rock taught you base 12 between cartoons:
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They taught us other bases in the 1970s when I was a kid. I wonder if it fell out of favor and then came back?
You could eat cereal on Saturday morning in 1973 while Schoolhouse Rock taught you base 12 between cartoons:
It has never fallen out of favor with those of us in math who want young people to have a good foundation in discrete mathematics?
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It has never fallen out of favor with those of us in math who want young people to have a good foundation in discrete mathematics?
Also, there is a big gap between being aware that "computers use a language of 1s and 0s" and really understanding how that is built in to the way these machines work. Everything must be encoded and decoded. So, I think this concept of encoding and representation is very important.
Not so that you can read binary, but rather so you have a clear sense of what it means to use layers of algorithms to take something like an image and make it into binary.
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Also, there is a big gap between being aware that "computers use a language of 1s and 0s" and really understanding how that is built in to the way these machines work. Everything must be encoded and decoded. So, I think this concept of encoding and representation is very important.
Not so that you can read binary, but rather so you have a clear sense of what it means to use layers of algorithms to take something like an image and make it into binary.
Computers give the impression of working with the analog, so much of the way we work with them obscures their fundamentally discrete nature.
But under the hood? that's still how it works.