Various proposals have been made to quantify the relative costs between using differentradicesin representing numbers, especially in computer systems.
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This works best for evenradicessince the sign can be determined by looking at the first digit.
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For smallradices"r" less than about 7, a single digit required "r" triodes.
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Western timeradicesinclude decimal centuries, decades and years as well as duodecimal months, trigesimal (and untrigesimal) days, overlapped with base 52 weeks and septenary days.
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