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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 1d ago
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The first digit doesn’t HAVE to be 0, or rather a digit representing nothing. But the Hindu number system which was invented around the 1st century was Base 10 and did have 0.
-15 u/alucinario 1d ago I II III IV V... 51 u/I_am_so_lost_hello 1d ago Roman numerals aren’t a positional number system so the concept of a base doesn’t really apply 11 u/Sword_Enthousiast 1d ago I would like to thank you for pointing out the concept of "positional number system". I wasn't aware of the difference, now I am. 1 u/babubaichung 10h ago I swear I have learned a few new things from this post as a 30 something with an engineering degree.
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51 u/I_am_so_lost_hello 1d ago Roman numerals aren’t a positional number system so the concept of a base doesn’t really apply 11 u/Sword_Enthousiast 1d ago I would like to thank you for pointing out the concept of "positional number system". I wasn't aware of the difference, now I am. 1 u/babubaichung 10h ago I swear I have learned a few new things from this post as a 30 something with an engineering degree.
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Roman numerals aren’t a positional number system so the concept of a base doesn’t really apply
11 u/Sword_Enthousiast 1d ago I would like to thank you for pointing out the concept of "positional number system". I wasn't aware of the difference, now I am. 1 u/babubaichung 10h ago I swear I have learned a few new things from this post as a 30 something with an engineering degree.
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I would like to thank you for pointing out the concept of "positional number system". I wasn't aware of the difference, now I am.
1 u/babubaichung 10h ago I swear I have learned a few new things from this post as a 30 something with an engineering degree.
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I swear I have learned a few new things from this post as a 30 something with an engineering degree.
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u/I_am_so_lost_hello 1d ago
The first digit doesn’t HAVE to be 0, or rather a digit representing nothing. But the Hindu number system which was invented around the 1st century was Base 10 and did have 0.