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Every base is base 10 (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by realitista to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

every base is not base ten, and i will fight you on this one.

binary is base two, or as i like to refer to it, the power of 2 base.

[–] puppy 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

/r/swoosh

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] puppy 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You said ten, the joke didn't.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, when you see 10 in base-4, you'd say "Quad"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

ok so correction, googling base 4 literally returns "Quaternary system" So there's your answer lmao.

just because binary is called binary doesn't mean 10 is binary, 10 is 2 in binary. (Reading from right to left.)

hexadecimal is similar 1F would be 16, assuming i got that correct.

We have the same thing in the decimal system as well. 10 is 10, not decimal, the reason it's referred to as decimal is because it's base 10, meaning that it has deca (10) possibilities it's just used to provide an abstracted method of referring to base systems in word form, without using numbers, because numbers can be a little confusing sometimes.

[–] AdrianTheFrog 7 points 6 months ago

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