realitista@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months agoEvery base is base 10lemmy.worldimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
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minus-squareniartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agowe’d only be able to represent bases for numbers with one digit though because what does base 15+1 mean? the 15 could be in any base higher than 5. the clearest way would probably be to just represent it with lines or something “base ||||||||||”
minus-squareharmsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoBase 16 is typically represented with letters being used as the extra numerals, so it would end up being F+1. Problem solved.
minus-squareniartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agowhat about numbers larger than 16?
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWe’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
we’d only be able to represent bases for numbers with one digit though because what does base 15+1 mean? the 15 could be in any base higher than 5. the clearest way would probably be to just represent it with lines or something “base ||||||||||”
Base 16 is typically represented with letters being used as the extra numerals, so it would end up being F+1. Problem solved.
what about numbers larger than 16?
We’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64