My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850… (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)
Base 1 is the only universal counting system.
They are using base 1111 and base 1111111111. Instead of digits, you can represent numbers using rocks, if needed.
“You must mean Base 22”
This post made me decide to go to sleep because I’m too fucking tired for this shit
Thanks
A base-neutral system for naming numbering systems (by jan Miseli) is my favorite solution for this problem.
There are only 10 types of people:
the ones that expected a binary joke, and
the ones that expected a ternary joke, and
the ones that expected a quartenary joke, and
…
We have N fingers, naturally.
…and all of them are using base 10.
Alien has 4 fingers…nice touch
You mean 10 fingers
Oh, you must be using base 4. You see, Phoenix alpha uses base 10.
That’s base 22, for all the base 10 users out there.
And it works just as well, if we reverse the roles:
🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
🪨Human: There are 11 rocks.
Alien: Oh, you must be using base A. See, I use base 10.
Human: No, I use base 10. What is base A?
Roman : There are XI rocks.
(hexadecimal)
all your base are belong to us
A true classic. My only regret is that I cant link it in the original shockwave.
Maybe I can help then:
https://archive.org/details/allyourbase
1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30…
Oh, sorry we’re base 22
Based.
So should I be saying base 9+1?
for that one alien, you may say :
“base 3 + 3 + 3 + 1”
For universal other sentient beings, say :
“base 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
+ 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1”“I’m 16, but in base 1, I’m 10000000000000000 years old. My ID just needs to be updated.”
Since in base 2 you have two numerals that are (0, 1) …
Then, in base 1 you would have only one numeral.
if it was (1) then you could write :
( , 1, 11, 111, ...)
With a sign (-) for negative numbers :
( ..., -111, -11, -1, , 1, 11, 111, ... )
I think the best way I’ve seen was to just poke the number of holes in the dirt or draw a picture, labeling them until you get to your base switching moment.
Base 4 but indexes start at 1
Oh fuck oh shit I’m too high to handle this RN!
