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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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[–] niktemadur 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"2.5, 5, 7.5, TEN! See?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Two point what?

[–] billwashere 7 points 6 months ago

🤯

[–] Dusktracer 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

10 is actually only 2. The number of people misunderstanding binary here is mind blowing xD.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
  1. This is why I say "10" is not a number, it just means one big group and zero remainder.
  2. I am a huuuuge proponent of dozenal (base-12)
[–] Lotarion 4 points 6 months ago

I remember someone trying to come up with a solution to this by generating a name for every single base, dunno if they've succeeded or not tho

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