I saw people making a joke about this in a comment section and I couldn’t seem to understand what they were talking about. Can someone fill me in?
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we use base 10, which means our number system has 10 digits, 0-9
Base 8 has 8 digits, 0-7 (Base 2 uses 0-1, Base 16 uses 0-F, etc)
counting in base 8 goes 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,20…
11 in base 10 means (1 * 10^1 + 1*10^0) == 10 + 1 == 11
11 is base 8 means (1*8^1 + 1*8^0) == 8 + 1 == 9
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