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Every base is base 10 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] efstajas 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's because we count the 0...... no? 0 and 1, base 2. 0123456789, base 10.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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