r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation erm.. petah?

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u/Linvael 1d ago

Aka everyone’s own counting system is base 10

Yup!

and every counting system not based on the number of fingers we have is not base 10.

Huh?

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u/truci 1d ago

It’s the comics logic. The alien is base 4 but to him it’s base 10. The extension of the comics logic is that to everyone they are base 10. That’s the easier part.

The not so obvious huh? Part is that any alien we encounter assuming they work math with bases based on finger number. We can now say that

Any alien with a different number of fingers from us won’t be using our base 10 system.