r/mathmemes Nov 21 '20

All bases are base 10.

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u/belabacsijolvan Nov 22 '20

So they use digits from 0-15. That's enough for base sixteen.

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u/KindaDouchebaggy Nov 22 '20

Of course it is, my point was that we can show numbers from 0 to 10 with our fingers, and they could not show numbers from 0 to 16.