Number Systems

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This Quora post Is there an objectively best base number system? has several good answers. Some highlights:

• Quarter-Imaginary
• Cistercian numerals
• Balanced ternary

There was also mention of a Mayan system that could represent multiplication well (in some visual way perhaps?). And mention of irrational bases. Apparently Donald Knuth wrote about these alot.

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The Youtube channel Artifexian (on "worldbuilding") has several good videos on number systems.

• INVENTING A NUMBER SYSTEM ft. Conlang Critic
• INVENTING A NUMBER SYSTEM 2 ft. Conlang Critic
• INVENTING A NUMBER SYSTEM 2 | Follow Up
• Why These Are The Best Numbers!
• Why These Are The Best Numbers | FOLLOW UP

Conlang Critic also has a few videos math and numbers systems, in particular they argue the best base for based number systems is 6 by showing it has the smallest "entropy" by a certain definition of entropy

• a better way to count
• seximal responses