Comment on Every base is base 10

Tramdan@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WolfLink@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And those who didn’t expect the joke to be in base 3

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  • BlueKey@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forgot the ones who expected it to be in base 4.

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    • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i still dont understand the joke…

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      • BlueKey@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In any Base-x system, one digit goes up to x - 1 (with base > 10 we use alphabet letters), then the next digit (to the left) is incremented.
        So in our normal Base-10 system, you count up from 0 to 9 and then add a digit in the front and reset the other digits to get 10.

        This means, that in every Base-x system '10' equals x.
        So you can make the "There 10 types of people ..." with every base as '10' in Base-2 means 2, 3 in Base-3 and so on.

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