So I never did well with Maths at school and now I'm trying to improve. I can't get my head around different base systems. I know we use base-10 but I don't understand the reasoning or how that relates to other base systems.
Is the reason we use base-10 because each column to the left is exactly 10 times larger than to the right which makes calculation easier (10,000, 1000, 100, 10, 1 etc.)? Whereas under base-8 it would be super complex (4096, 512, 64, 8, 1)?
Or have I got that completly wrong and even under base-8, the columns to left would technically be in groups of 10 but "ten" would refer to "eight" and we wouldn't count 8s and 9s? So "ten" just means group rather than a fixed quantity?
Is the reason we use base-10 because each column to the left is exactly 10 times larger than to the right which makes calculation easier (10,000, 1000, 100, 10, 1 etc.)? Whereas under base-8 it would be super complex (4096, 512, 64, 8, 1)?
Or have I got that completly wrong and even under base-8, the columns to left would technically be in groups of 10 but "ten" would refer to "eight" and we wouldn't count 8s and 9s? So "ten" just means group rather than a fixed quantity?
