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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

... and those who know at base n, "10" can represent literally any number.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's why you always specify the base

10~10~

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I hope they included that information on the cover of the Voyager golden record in case aliens want to understand our numbers.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 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! 😄

[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Base 0, base pi and base i are interesting, though.