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