Decimal is base 10, and goes from 0 to 9
Octal is base 8, and goes from 0 to 7
Binary is base 2, and goes from 1 to 2
A tally chart is base 1, and you have as longer string as number you have
But what is base 0? Infinities?
Numbers
Numbers
Eh?
Re: Numbers
Base 0 is singularity
Re: Numbers
Tally marks use only one symbol, but it's not clear to me that tally marks form a base 1 number system. For instance, you can represent a positive integer n in base b using ceil(log_b(n + 1)) "digits," where log_b is log base b, but log base 1 is undefined.
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Re: Numbers
Binary only goes from 0 to 1, not 1 to 2.
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Oops!
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Re: Numbers
Yeah, oops about teh binary.
You're right about the tally chart, you need some number to tell how long it is.
You're right about the tally chart, you need some number to tell how long it is.
Eh?