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Base 100! should make you happy. It's divisible by pretty much any integer you'd ever need. A bit unwieldy, but it really cuts down on fractions.


That's factorial, not emphatic notation.

Care to write the proposal?


To be sure, counting in base 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000 would be a bit cumbersome.


After some reflection, I was actually thinking we should maybe use base 100!π³ just in case people end up working with spherical volumes. Open to suggestions.


sqrt(2), e and i as well, for completeness.




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