Round time intervals in other bases
2000 years is a nice round number. But if we write it in base 2 we
get 11111010000 which is not so nice. In binary the next nice number
will be 100000000000, which is 2^11 = 2048 in base ten years. So we
are only 50 or so years away from another big party, especially
if everyone switches to base 2. Checking the next "nice" number
for each base system yields some nice ones coming up. (base 3, base 4,
.. base 11, base 12, ...
This gives several "party opportunities" for the next century what
are they?
Here is a list of numbers for bases up to 50
As a summary through base 45:
- 2000 is 2000 base 10
- 2000 is 500 base 20
- 2023 is 700 base 17
- 2025 is 10 base 45
- 2028 is c00 base 13 (c = 12)
- 2028 is 30 base 26
- 2048 is 100,000,000,000 base 2
- 2048 is 200,000 base 4
- 2048 is 4,000 base 8
- 2048 is 800 base 16
- 2048 is 20 base 32
- 2058 is 6,000 base 7