Comment on Every base is base 10

• harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There are still 20 more letters that can be used as stand-ins. Things will get interesting if you try to go past Base 36, though.

  source

  • niartenyaw@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    this is exactly what i was trying to get at

    source

    • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Make up a new symbol?

      source

      • harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Or use ancient scripts like Phoenician or Glagolitic.

        source
• yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  We’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

  source

  • hex@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Base /+1 lol

    source
  • niartenyaw@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    what about numbers after 64? OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment

    source