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 11-07-2009, 10:42 PM
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Passerbye wrote:

wazilla wrote:

Passerbye wrote:

This is probably a stupid question. I'm trying to wrap my head around a foreign concept. How would you count past, say, 5 in a base-five system? That is, what word would you use for 6? 
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6 would be 10. You just move to the next digit like how you have to go from 9 to 10 in base 10.
err maybe what jebus said. I'm tired and am supposed to be watching movies.
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Sssso..... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, etc.?
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No, if it was base 5 it would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30...
0 counts as a digit for purposes of what base a numeral system is. |
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Kastanj wrote:

(regarding Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow)
You'd have an easier time digesting the fucking thing if you actually ate it.
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