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Re:The Code Side Of Color by vog on Thursday October 04, 2012 @03:23PM (#4613895)
Sorry for the nitpick, but that's not really "base 1".

It is "unary", which is completely different encoding than the "positional notations" such as decimal, octal, binary, etc. The positional notation doesn't work with base 1, as in that notation there would be only 0, and 0, 00, 000, etc., which all mean the same number: zero.

Re:The Code Side Of Color by pilsetnieks on Thursday October 04, 2012 @06:09PM (#4614655)
That I agree on, it is conceptually different (and more primitive); the whole conversation just reminded me of GEB.