r/mathmemes Nov 21 '20

All bases are base 10.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

does the "number theory people" deal with this type of stuff?

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u/StevenC21 Nov 21 '20

No not really.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

which branch of mathematics has the bases and stuff?

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u/StevenC21 Nov 21 '20

Nobody really deals with that because that is all just a way to represent the actual math that we care about, and base 10 works fine for our purposes.

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u/igLizworks Nov 21 '20

Eh there’s a veeeery small portion of number theory that studies digit frequency in primes, which changes from base to base. I don’t know much about it though.