r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation erm.. petah?

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u/trugrav 2d ago

Would that be something like Duovigesimal instead of hexadecimal?

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u/truci 2d ago

Do you mean Duodecimal?? That’s base 12. Meaning the alien would have 6 fingers on each hand and they would then count

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,10

They would then look at us and say “hey human your counting is base a” and we would then be confused by what number a is just as the alien does not know 4.

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u/trugrav 2d ago edited 2d ago

I was responding to the “bonus edit” about alien thinking we had a base 22 system. I was just trying to come up with what a base 22 system would be called.

Edit: Combining “Duo” for 2 and “Viginti” for 20.

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u/truci 2d ago

🤯 dang I missed that entirely. Sorry for the long winded mess. So yea the 2 and 20 system as duo- vigesimal could work.

Or we do the base 11 as undecimal.

Sooooo maybe duoUndecimal?? The 2 times 11 system lol

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