Re:Seximal: A better way to count [video]
by hervature on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:56PM
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Mathematically speaking, base 1 doesn't make any sense. Using 1 as a radix yields something incoherent. But I think you mean simply making a mark for every unit (like how most people count inventory) which is definitely more fundamental in a different way.
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I mean
1 dec == 1 unit (1x1^0)
2 dec == 11 unit (1x1^0 + 1x1^1)
3 dec == 111 unit (1x1^0 + 1x1^1 + 1x1^2)
Well, maybe not "just like", the digit I have to use to represent each power of 1 is 1 and not 0, but I think that's a small concession.
That's not a "base". In base-n, the valid digits are 0..[n-1].
In your system, 1 = 10 = 100 = 1000, and 11 == 101 = 110, and 101 = 1+1 = 11. It's useless as a notation for arithmetic resembling like what bases are used for.
In base 1, the only valid digit is 0, so the only valid number is unit.
Right, I addressed that in my post...
writing ten like 1111111111 seems obvious enough, dividing by 11111 being 11 is alsof easy... but how fractions? Say 1 divided by 11111? I cant even imagine.
Re:Seximal: A better way to count [video]
by thomastjeffery on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:13PM
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Unary is just tallies. Without the cross every fifth digit, of course.