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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Count 'em. TEN symbols
0 1 # # # # # # #
TWO symbols
If I ball my hands into fists and ask you to tell me how many fingers I'm holding up, what will you answer?Shankar wrote:Reason why I say we have been following a Base 9, thinking we are in decimal, since in our practise we don't use 0. When we count fingers, we count from 1 to 10. (we don't include 0.) and so we have 10 fingers.
you would be holding up Zero, if the first time.jpatokal wrote:If I ball my hands into fists and ask you to tell me how many fingers I'm holding up, what will you answer?Shankar wrote:Reason why I say we have been following a Base 9, thinking we are in decimal, since in our practise we don't use 0. When we count fingers, we count from 1 to 10. (we don't include 0.) and so we have 10 fingers.
Your same silly thinking holds for all the examples you gave above.Shankar wrote: Base 1 1X
Base 2 12X
Base 3 123X
Base 4 1234X
Base 5 12345X
Base 6 123456X
Base 7 1234567X
Base 8 12345678X
Base 9 123456789X
Base 10 123456789AX
Base 11 123456789ABX
Base 12 123456789ABCX
Base 13 123456789ABCDX
Base 14 123456789ABCDEX
Base 15 123456789ABCDEFX
Base 16 123456789ABCDEFGX
But in Base-10 we see that A is required, but not in practise.
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