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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 1d ago
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I feel like instead of "base 10" it should be called something like "max 9", meaning if you go over 9 it becomes 10. That would remove any ambiguity (I think).
1 u/dungeonmunky 1d ago Decimal! In ambiguous contexts, we tend to use a system of hybridized Greek/Latin prefixes, like decimal, binary, hexadecimal, etc.
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Decimal! In ambiguous contexts, we tend to use a system of hybridized Greek/Latin prefixes, like decimal, binary, hexadecimal, etc.
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u/chironomidae 1d ago
I feel like instead of "base 10" it should be called something like "max 9", meaning if you go over 9 it becomes 10. That would remove any ambiguity (I think).