Every base is base 10

I like the detail that there alien has 4(10) fingers as opposed to the 10(22) that the human has.

There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Based.

I like that the alien has 4 fingers. Fitting!

There are only 10 ways of doing things: the right way and the wrong way. (Programming joke)

Huh, that's a good point. A better universal naming system would be something like "Base x+1", with x being one integer lower than 10. So humans would use Base 9+1, and the alien would use Base 3+1.

*This has been on my mind all day and the more I think about it, the more obvious it becomes how fundamentally terrible the name "Base-10" is. How did this never occur to the people who coined the term? Even the system I suggested is flawed as it's still trying to incorporate the same bad logic.

A better system would be something like Base 9, stopping shy of the respective 10 in each system, or if it needs to be clarified, Base 9+0, as 0 is the extra digit in the first place, not 10.

All your base belong to us

Wow I never thought about that.

But it is always like this:

let there be any base "b"
That can represent a number by the sum of their positional digits:

number = sum(d_i * b ^ i)
   where i is the position index and d_i is the digit at this position. (note: index starts with 0, from the least digit farthest to the right)

So the (decimal) number 4 in base 4 is then

1×4¹ + 0×4^0 = 10

And (decimal) number 8 in base 8 is

1×8¹ + 0×8^0 = 10

And 10 in base 10:

1×10¹ + 0×10^0 = 10

Octal is base 8. Decimal is base A. Hexadecimal is base G. Any questions?

Only when written, which is the whole point of notation. "Ten" is still a fixed amount, and so is four.

Looks like 0100 rocks to me

10 is actually only 2. The number of people misunderstanding binary here is mind blowing xD.

Took me a moment

Fuck I am so lost

The most reliable way to communicate bases would probably be using unary. Now if your alien is using unary, that might not work, but it should for all higher bases.

This one took me a bit.

"2.5, 5, 7.5, TEN! See?"

🤯

I remember someone trying to come up with a solution to this by generating a name for every single base, dunno if they've succeeded or not tho

This is why I say "10" is not a number, it just means one big group and zero remainder.
I am a huuuuge proponent of dozenal (base-12)

Plot twist: there are 8 other stones and the alien is really using base 10 (or base 30 if you use base 4)

every base is not base ten, and i will fight you on this one.

binary is base two, or as i like to refer to it, the power of 2 base.

Thanks. I realized the typo after I saved. Oh well.