@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • 6 months agoEvery base is base 10lemmy.worldmessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up11.2K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•6 months agoIt’s because we count the 0… no? 0 and 1, base 2. 0123456789, base 10.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoThe same is true for all bases. What we call base-4 in base-10 is 0123. In base-16 it’s 0123456789abcdef, where f is what we would call 15
It’s because we count the 0… no? 0 and 1, base 2. 0123456789, base 10.
The same is true for all bases. What we call base-4 in base-10 is 0123. In base-16 it’s 0123456789abcdef, where f is what we would call 15