realitista@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months agoEvery base is base 10lemmy.worldimagemessage-square176fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageEvery base is base 10lemmy.worldrealitista@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square176fedilink
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoevery 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.
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months ago/r/swoosh PS: Is there an equivalent in Lemmy for this yet?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agowaiting until people realize i said ten, instead of 10.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoyeah, and weird story, i’m not the joke.
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoOk then. In english, what would you call 4 in a base-4 system?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoquad 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.
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoSo, when you see 10 in base-4, you’d say “Quad”?
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoIn every base, a 1 in the second spot corresponds to the name of the base.
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.
/r/swoosh
PS: Is there an equivalent in Lemmy for this yet?
waiting until people realize i said ten, instead of 10.
You said ten, the joke didn’t.
yeah, and weird story, i’m not the joke.
Ok then. In english, what would you call 4 in a base-4 system?
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.
So, when you see 10 in base-4, you’d say “Quad”?
In every base, a 1 in the second spot corresponds to the name of the base.