• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    A base 4 number system has 4 numbers in it: 0, 1, 2, and 3.
    After 3 the next numbers are 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, etc.

    A base 10 number system has 10 numbers in it, 0 through 9.

    Hexadecimal is base 16: 0-9 followed by A-F

    The alien using a “base 4” number system does not have a single digit for the number “4”. They represent four of something with the number “10”, so for them, their four digit number system is “base 10”.

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      6 months ago

      Based

      Also decided not to invite because this comment is at 69 and I can’t think of anything more based than that.