{"id":2376,"date":"2011-08-25T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2011-08-25T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:23:20","slug":"example-of-how-ones-language-influences-ones-thinking-calculating-with-different-bases-in-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2011\/08\/example-of-how-ones-language-influences-ones-thinking-calculating-with-different-bases-in-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Example of how one&#8217;s language influences one&#8217;s thinking: Calculating with different bases in math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mathforum.org\/library\/drmath\/view\/55726.html\">Read this exchange.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calculating in non-base 10 is so very hard, even for bright individuals. However, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_numeral_systems\">not always been like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that I will rite a computer program (in free pascal) that can calculate different bases, just to train me to think in a non-standard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this exchange. Calculating in non-base 10 is so very hard, even for bright individuals. However, it has not always been like this. I think that I will rite a computer program (in free pascal) that can calculate different bases, just to train me to think in a non-standard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1696,683,1695,1697],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-philosophy","tag-base","tag-language","tag-math","tag-thinking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}