• 4am@lemmy.zip
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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

      • Snazz@lemmy.world
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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.