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Every base is base 10 (lemmy.world)

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[–] Tramdan 88 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And those who didn’t expect the joke to be in base 3

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You forgot the ones who expected it to be in base 4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i still dont understand the joke.....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

In any Base-x system, one digit goes up to x - 1 (with base > 10 we use alphabet letters), then the next digit (to the left) is incremented.
So in our normal Base-10 system, you count up from 0 to 9 and then add a digit in the front and reset the other digits to get 10.

This means, that in every Base-x system '10' equals x.
So you can make the "There 10 types of people ..." with every base as '10' in Base-2 means 2, 3 in Base-3 and so on.

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