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[–] 19 points 2 years ago

TIL Jaden Smith is on Lemmy

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    If 4 did not exist, then you would be using a base-4 quarternary numbering system (which is able to use the numbers 0,1,2,3)

    The system will be similar to how our base 10 numbers work, but instead of counting to 9 before adding a trailing zero and becoming 10, you would count to 3. So 2 plus 2 would roll past 3, and equal 10.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Could also be using a base 3 or binary system. Or the ever elusive base 1 system.

    How many of those do you have?

    111

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Technically a base 1 system cannot exist (effectively), because it would mean you were counting from zero (nothing). All base systems for real "math" have to index from null. You couldn't even count using 0, 00, 000, 0000 because how would you know if the first 0 indicated actually zero, or was it the first item? You could only identify it by the absence of all marks, which doesn't work in math or any modern setting.

    Number systems are weird. I hate math sometimes.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    In an oddly appropriate way, base 1 simply uses 0s to add a place holder for each counted item. In other words ‘4’ base 1 is ‘0000’. It exists but it defeats the purpose of symbolic representation of counted items by requiring the observer to count the digits.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Posting while high should be a bannable offence.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    Literally 1984

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    There are only 10 types of people in the world...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’ve inadvertently hit on the beginnings of an apparent paradox to do with the relationship between numbers and the counting numbers

    Suppose the largest number you can have is X and the smallest number you can have is -Y. Then between -Y and X, you can count X+Y numbers which is clearly larger than X. But X is the largest possible number so X+Y doesn’t exist.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oh so that's why big brother is telling everyone that 2+2=5 man if only the administry of truth did a better job at explaining his conclusions we wouldn't have a need to re educate people

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This is not StonerThoughts.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago
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    Numbers are racist.

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