• Snazz@lemmy.world
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    13 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.