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(Message started by: Noke Lieu on Feb 10th, 2009, 3:54pm)
Title: Base 10
Post by Noke Lieu on Feb 10th, 2009, 3:54pm
It's been a really interesting challenge, writing up on different subjects, tryring to think about how people struggle with concepts.

I'm currently finishing off  "Binary". And it made me think how silly writing "Base 10" is, because they're ALL "Base 10" in that base.

It's just a bit of a quirky "huh" at convention, I guess?
Title: Re: Base 10
Post by towr on Feb 11th, 2009, 12:14am
Well, yeah. But usually we write the base in base ten, rather than base 10 where 10 is the base itself. You need some common reference somewhere.
Title: Re: Base 10
Post by Grimbal on Feb 12th, 2009, 9:48am
Since you are obviously in a context where you consider multiple bases, you should specify in which base you mean it.

---> "In base 1010"

;D


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