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Say what base right now
2 makes sense
assuming "age" means years since birth and "numbers" means digits, op would be younger than 8
I mean it would have to be at least base 4 given the text.
Why not 9?
1000₂ = 8₁₀ has 4 digits in base 2
111₂ = 7₁₀ has 3 digits in base 2
Oof. When I first read this posts my mind was somehow reading “base 2” as “base 10” and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around what I was seeing. Sleep has made everything make sense
i mean base 10 is base 2 if you write the base as base 2
Let’s just say that’s what I was thinking
I read it as days, so 2.73 years. Or months, 83.33 years.
That thing where some mothers say "oh he/she's X days/months old" for kids that are way beyond where that's relevant.
Oh interesting take. The unit is different but still base 10. That would certainly be the more normal way to think about it...