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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days 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 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's why you always specify the base

10~10~

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

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

"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 6 days ago

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