Revisiting Radix Economy
https://medium.com/@sweis/revisiting-radix-economy-8f642d9f3c6a [medium.com]
2018-07-06 17:49
The original paper that people cite as the source of “e is the optimal radix” was relevant for a vacuum tube architecture. Even for that, it immediately backtracks saying “except when 2 is better”, that its analysis is too shallow, and it falls apart in practice.