r/mathmemes • u/TheHarcker • Nov 21 '20

All bases are base 10.

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u/dayriderBusking Nov 21 '20

If you are used to having 4 as what we call 10, then what to us is base 4 would be base 10 to them.

The list of bases for them would go Base 1 Base 2 Base 3 Base 10 Base 11 Base 12 ...

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u/Djezzen Nov 21 '20

so their base 22 is our base 10, right?

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u/dayriderBusking Nov 21 '20

1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22 matches up with

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

So yes! (I had to write it out to get my head round it)

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

so based bro