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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by nsajko on Monday March 14, 2016 @12:18PM (#11283690)
But numerals "10" in bases other than decimal aren't usually called ten, I think.
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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by kaoD on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:45PM (#11284232)
Ten is "decem" in Latin. Decimal means, literally, base ten. It's a tautology either way. You can't even specify the base of the base since "base (10 in base 10)" presents the same problem recursively.

It's a non-problem though. I don't know about mathematicians, but when programmers say base N they mean N in decimal.

EDIT: woops, replied to the wrong post.

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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by smellf on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:13PM (#11284007)
"10" is never correctly called "ten" except in decimal. But this whole tangent is getting a little navel-gazey for me. "Base 10" is fine in my book because decimal is our inbuilt base.
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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by nsajko on Monday March 14, 2016 @04:04PM (#11285167)
That's what I said (or tried to :) ).
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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by rlucas on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:20PM (#11284053)
Should we call it "base a"?
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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by jholman on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:34PM (#11284143)
"base ||||| |||||"

perhaps "base |||||*||", for short.

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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by raould42 on Monday March 14, 2016 @03:53PM (#11285089)
base X (romans)
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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by kuschku on Monday March 14, 2016 @03:48PM (#11285053)
base II*II+II?
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