Devine Lu Linvegan on Nostr: Oh I think ∴ esoterik ∴ might know what this is called. "anyone know if there's a ...

Oh I think ∴ esoterik ∴ (npub139w…88f5) might know what this is called.

"anyone know if there's a common term for what we've been thinking of as the "basis" or "scale" of fixed-point arithmetic? that being the value which you treat as one (1) in a particular context.

for instance, if your basis is 6, then you can represent a third with the literal value 2, since 2/6 is a third, or a half with the literal value 3, since 3/6 is a half. or you can represent 1.5 with 9, since that's 9/6."