• pyre@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    they already said that they have numerals for the base they use. from what I understood, basically imagine we use base 10 but have a numeral for it, let’s say X. our numbers go like this:

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, X, X1,X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, X8, X9, 2X, 2X1, 2X2, etc…

    so i imagine it’s similarwhen they use base 4:

    1, 2, 3, 4, 41, 42, 43, 24, 241, 242, 243, 34…

    mind that i have no knowledge on this and I’m only interpreting what i understood from the comment above.

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      3 hours ago

      But the extra numeral that you’re representing with X would be base 11. It’s like how hexadecimal uses A-F for 10-15. But the range of numerals still ends at 15 instead of 16 because the 0 exists.

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        2 hours ago

        you’re conflating number systems. in this number system the positioning doesn’t assign value. that’s like saying Roman numerals are base 1001 because M.