Something I found while reading about base systems, I can’t really wrap my head around it. Maybe it has to do with fractions?
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It is a joke, because written we normally write things you would end up writing 10 for the base number in that base for all bases.
16 in base 16 is written 10
8 in base 8 is written 10
2 in base 2 is written 10
Of course this only works for the way we write things down normally, with the least value digit on the right and each digit representing a value that is the base to the positions power and where 1 means one of something and 0 means none, but since we mostly do it mostly works.
to put it in more ELI5 terms.
The number to the right says how many ones you have.
The number left of it says how many of the base you have. In our normal decimal system it says how many tens you have.
In any other base it would say how many of that base you have.
10 always means one of the base this number is written in. If you write out the base in its own system it will always look like ’10’.
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