Comment on Every base is base 10

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• puppy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  /r/swoosh

  PS: Is there an equivalent in Lemmy for this yet?

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    waiting until people realize i said ten, instead of 10.

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    • puppy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You said ten, the joke didn’t.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeah, and weird story, i’m not the joke.

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    • ech@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok then. In english, what would you call 4 in a base-4 system?

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        quad would be the formal root, so something based that, you could do a french thing where you go “half octal” you could just not use it because it’s a crime against humanity, and the joke here is dependent on the specific telling of the statement.

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• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In every base, a 1 in the second spot corresponds to the name of the base.

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