It’s because we count the 0… no? 0 and 1, base 2. 0123456789, base 10.
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoJesus Christ.
I just realized that we call binary base2 and there’s no 2 in that numbering system. We call hexadecimal base16 but there’s no 16 (at least not like we know it). But then why is base10 base10? We have a 10…but it’s not a single digit number.
Why is this reminding me of Project Hail Mary?
efstajas@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The same is true for all bases. What we call base-4 in base-10 is 0123. In base-16 it’s 0123456789abcdef, where f is what we would call 15
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
because then every base would be ‘base 10’
That or the decriarchy has been normalizing the decimal counting system as the default one for far too long!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
(There is no 10 in base-10, which is why we construct it out of two other numbers)
PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Love that book!
psud@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Every base has ten, but it’s made of two digits
Binary 0, 1, 10 Ternary 0, 1, 2, 10 … Decimal 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Hex 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10
Each has the right count of digits for its base before you go two-digit - binary has two (0, 1), etc
Randelung@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
more precisely, every base has 10, but it’s usually not equal to ten. ten is a fixed value, while 10 depends on the base. you still count normally (one two three four five), even in a base two system. you just write it differently.