bleistift2Jun 30, 2024

Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right?

https://sopuli.xyz/post/14326368

Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right? - Sopuli

Meme transcription: Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String? Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

Show threadapprehenticeJun 30, 2024
“1” + “1”
Show threadchina🇨🇳Jun 30, 2024
“11”
Show threadSkuaJun 30, 2024
strings are in base two, got it
Show threadRezJun 30, 2024
Wouldn’t the answer be “10” in that case?
Show threadunalivejoyJun 30, 2024
1+1=11 means base 1
Show threadEheranJun 30, 2024
How so?
Show threadCanadaPlusJun 30, 2024

1 11 111 1111 11111 111111

That’s base 1. By convention, because it doesn’t really fit the pattern of positional number systems as far as I can tell, but it gets called that.

Show threadDoc Avid Mornington
Who calls it that? Who even uses that enough to have given it a name? Seems completely pointless…
Jul 1, 2024 at 7:40pmWeb
Show threadCanadaPlusJul 1, 2024

Theoretical computer scientists, historians of mathematics.

I’m not sure where I heard the term exactly, but I know I have multiple times.

Show threadDoc Avid MorningtonJul 2, 2024

Thanks for sharing this, it’s quite interesting. I found a Wikipedia article on it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system

Apparently, as you did suggest, “base 1” is a name that is used, but is somewhat a misnomer.

The article mentions that Church encoding is a kind of unary notation, which I would not have thought of, but I guess it is.

Enjoyable little rabbit-hole to zap my productivity for the day.

Unary numeral system - Wikipedia

Show threadCanadaPlusJul 2, 2024
No problem!