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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 month agoThere are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
minus-squarenoerdman@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 month ago… and those who know at base n, “10” can represent literally any number.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoThat’s why you always specify the base 1010
minus-squarenoerdman@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoI hope they included that information on the cover of the Voyager golden record in case aliens want to understand our numbers.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month ago “10” can represent literally any number. That sounds eminently practical. There’s NO way that would ever lead to any excess ambiguity! 😄
minus-squareOddMinus1@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoBase 0, base pi and base i are interesting, though.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
… and those who know at base n, “10” can represent literally any number.
That’s why you always specify the base
1010
10a
I hope they included that information on the cover of the Voyager golden record in case aliens want to understand our numbers.
That sounds eminently practical. There’s NO way that would ever lead to any excess ambiguity! 😄
Base 0, base pi and base i are interesting, though.