I’m struggling in class with understanding and calculating😭😭 It’s just not clicking for me
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Say I have 6 rocks and I want to make a nice sign telling people how many rocks I have but I am some strange alien who only has 2 symbols for numbers.
Lets start counting and writing it out using our symbols which don’t exist on a human keyboard so I will use X and Y:
X (we are starting out at zero)
Y (1)
YX ( 2, damn I ran out of symbols so had to make the thing wider)
YY (3, making the thing wider means I can use my old Y position that means 1, 1+2=3 cool)
YXX (4, damn ran out again, gotta make it wider again)
YXY (5, got to add that one again)
YYX (6, I wanted to add a 2 to a 4)
You can abstract over any source of truth, our rocks, and count them in a system of any bases. You have just existed in base-10(symbols are 0-9) your whole life and base-2 (0-1 or X/Y if you want to hammer home symbols only have the meaning we give them) is how computers see the world we made a weird compromise on base-16 for hex (it is about bytes) which we can both sorta understand
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