- rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish6 months
A true classic. My only regret is that I cant link it in the original shockwave.
- 6 months
There are only 10 types of people:
the ones that expected a binary joke, and
the ones that expected a ternary joke, and
the ones that expected a quartenary joke, and
…
- 6 months
And it works just as well, if we reverse the roles:
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🪨Human: There are 11 rocks.
Alien: Oh, you must be using base A. See, I use base 10.
Human: No, I use base 10. What is base A?
- 6 months
This post made me decide to go to sleep because I’m too fucking tired for this shit
Thanks
- 6 months
for that one alien, you may say :
“base 3 + 3 + 3 + 1”
For universal other sentient beings, say :
“base 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
+ 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1”- 6 months
“I’m 16, but in base 1, I’m 10000000000000000 years old. My ID just needs to be updated.”
- 6 months
Since in base 2 you have two numerals that are (0, 1) …
Then, in base 1 you would have only one numeral.
if it was (1) then you could write :
( , 1, 11, 111, ...)
With a sign (-) for negative numbers :
( ..., -111, -11, -1, , 1, 11, 111, ... )
- 6 months
I think the best way I’ve seen was to just poke the number of holes in the dirt or draw a picture, labeling them until you get to your base switching moment.
- 6 months
A base-neutral system for naming numbering systems (by jan Miseli) is my favorite solution for this problem.
- 6 months
Base 1 is the only universal counting system.
They are using base 1111 and base 1111111111. Instead of digits, you can represent numbers using rocks, if needed.
