• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    I mean not really cause base one would just be 111 + 111 = 111111. On the other hand if its baseless it still doesnt work cause then its 3 + 6 = 9? But with that it could just be base 10. One thing that could work is that its actually a split base 4 and 8 system where the first 3 digits of a number are base 4 and the rest are base 8 but this is a very confusing system and the opposite of what is usual. It could also be a system where 1, 2, 3 are used for whole parts of numbers and 4, 5, 6 were added when they inveneted fractions so they represent the fractional part of numbers? Thats what im gonna put my money on tho im probably ignoring something obvious.

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      10 hours ago

      I disagree with you definition of base 1. Since base 10 is 0 through 9, and base 2 is 0 and 1, therefor base 1 must be only 0.

      The real question is: How do we continue?
      What is base 0?
      Is that equal to base 1?
      Are the negative bases?

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          7 hours ago

          That would be reverse run length encoding. Also, Base 1 is just zero, everything equals zero.

          123 = 000 = 0

          456 = 000 = 0

          123456 = 000000 = 0

          123 + 456 = 123456

          0 + 0 = 0

          69 + 420 = 42069

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            11 minutes ago

            Base-n is a numeral positioning system where the value of each digit is n times the value of the dight directly to its right.

            We typically don’t let the maximum digit we use to be greater than or equal to n because then there would be multiple ways to express the same number.

            However when working with weird bases, sometimes it’s useful to forgo this convention.

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        7 hours ago

        This is completely true but i kinda shortcut to a zeroless base 1, basically a counting system. Another way you could make it work is of you had a seperate numeral for each factor of 2. So 1->1, 2->2, 3->4, 4->8, etc. So 123 is just 1+10+100->111 in base 2 so 123+456=123456 is true because 7+56 is 63. Idk i think we are overcomplicating a meme but thats what the internet is for and i think this system is actually not even that cursed.