• MBM@lemmings.world
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      10 months ago

      Can you really talk about 1 or 2 before giving a proper set-theoretic construction of the natural numbers?

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      10 months ago

      Come on, that’s way too complex. But how can one count to 10 if they don’t know what base to count to 10 in? We should definitely teach them bases first.

      Base 11, base 12, and base 16 are all better number systems to teach first imo. A prime number has some benefits when it comes to fractions, but so does a number like 12 which is divisible by many other numbers. Base 16 is useful as you can easily convert between that and the other bases of powers of 2.