In binary it’s 0.101 + 0.0011 + 1.000111, or laid out vertically:
0.101
0.0011
1.000111
=
1.111011
Halving numbers is no harder than decimating them, probably easier for most of us. Even computer scientists don’t think of base-10 as The Way The Truth and The Light; they use base-2 or base-16 for various things.
Decimal/base-ten is fine as a convention, but insisting that One Convention is perfect and others are heretical is stupid.
halving is a really easy mental operation; we do it all the time mentally and with physical things like bits of food or drink or folding a piece of paper
In binary it’s 0.101 + 0.0011 + 1.000111, or laid out vertically:
Halving numbers is no harder than decimating them, probably easier for most of us. Even computer scientists don’t think of base-10 as The Way The Truth and The Light; they use base-2 or base-16 for various things.
Decimal/base-ten is fine as a convention, but insisting that One Convention is perfect and others are heretical is stupid.
You do you, but if you’re reverting to binary to explain how simple it is to add values together, I think you’ve made a wrong turn somewhere.
halving is a really easy mental operation; we do it all the time mentally and with physical things like bits of food or drink or folding a piece of paper