• witty_username@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    I’m not sure if I fully understand.
    I was thinking, wouldn’t it be easiest to describe the system you use by taking the last number in your first decimum and then saying you increment it with one?
    E.g. for base ten this would be: base 9 + 1
    For binary it would be: base 1 + 1
    For hexadecimal it would be: base F + 1
    Etc.

    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      But if you’re talking to an alien that uses base 4, they don’t know what you mean by “base 9+1”. Wtf is a 9?