Innumeracy in public media today

[kuruman]

Possibly, but if so, I am sure it is fully explained in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

I looked. The answer is 42.

 

[gmax137]

Isn't 137 approximatey 1,876,900% of the fine structure constant's actual value?

Well, maybe.

 

[jim mcnamara]

Indigenous North American languages like Kewa and Dine use base 4 arithmetic. My wife ran a trading post on Dine (Navajo Reservation) found that things went better with numeric transactions in Dine - base4

https://lingspace.pages.wm.edu/indigenous-languages-north-america/

 

[kuruman]

Indigenous North American languages like Kewa and Dine use base 4 arithmetic. My wife ran a trading post on Dine (Navajo Reservation) found that things went better with numeric transactions in Dine - base4

It seems to me that using base 2 arithmetic would go even better. Either you give customers the change that they're owed or you don't.