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[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 128 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

All bases are base 10

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not base 1.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm only interested in 3rd base currently.

[–] three@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Based sex-pest

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

So base 4?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

All bases are belong to us

[–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More important is the scale. On a scale of 10 means it doesn’t matter in what base XD

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So then this would mean a 1 in binary is a decimal 5?

[–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends if the scale runs from 1 to 10 it would be equivalent to a decimal 1, interpretation would be binary: 10 pretty 1 not pretty

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

Not zero-indexing people's attractiveness SMH. /s

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This implies that they are actually "speaking" in text, because over actual speech 10 said in base 10 would be "ten" and 10 said in base 2 would be "one zero", i.e. not ambiguous at all.

[–] python@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's no rule saying that you can't pronounce 10 in binary as ten.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

thank you for giving me a great torture idea for all my IT adjacent friends, from now on i'll be pronouncing all binary as if it were one number (up until i can't be bothered anymore)

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

"My subnet mask is set to eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dot eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dot eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dot zero"

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 21 points 3 weeks ago

Should've just said "True".

[–] sidelove@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hexadecimal 😏

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

Babe, you are an F.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Babe, on a scale of 0x1 to 0x10, I give you a solid A+.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A+? Would that just be B or does it round down

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

It overflows and goes back to 0x00

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

It can be whatever you like

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

On a 100, right?

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe he meant IO. She is his input/output.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

All your base are belong to us

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Robort

[–] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But on a binary scale this would translate to 11 base 10.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wut?

10 binary = 2 decimal

10 decimal = 1010 binary

Where are we getting 11?

[–] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

10 is the base (2) overflowed by 1 (zero indexed) which kind of translates to 10+1 base 10 (1 indexed). I didn't really mean in in mathematical but rather nonsensical way. I just wanted to pull 11/10