Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right?
Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right?
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"1" + "1"
"11"
strings are in base two, got it
Strings are in base whatever roman numerals are.
Wouldn't the answer be "10" in that case?
yes, if I could do maths
1+1=11 means base 1
How so?
1 11 111 1111 11111 111111
That's base 1. By convention, because it doesn't really fit the pattern of positional number systems as far as I can tell, but it gets called that.
Who calls it that? Who even uses that enough to have given it a name? Seems completely pointless...
Theoretical computer scientists, historians of mathematics.
I'm not sure where I heard the term exactly, but I know I have multiple times.
Thanks for sharing this, it's quite interesting. I found a Wikipedia article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system
Apparently, as you did suggest, "base 1" is a name that is used, but is somewhat a misnomer.
The article mentions that Church encoding is a kind of unary notation, which I would not have thought of, but I guess it is.
Enjoyable little rabbit-hole to zap my productivity for the day.
Based
Oh, I get it, was reading as base 2 and confused by that. Essentially Roman numerals without all the fancy shortcuts.
Closer to tally marks without clustering
That's unary.