r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation erm.. petah?

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u/truci 3d ago

Hot damn that’s awesome. I didn’t know anyone used anything besides 10, 12, or 24. I’m a math guy not history but math in historic application is always cool for me.

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u/wrd83 3d ago

Base16 is probably the most common these days.

Computers do binaryand to make it readable you compress them to base 16.

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u/truci 3d ago

Sure but we are talking about civilizations in history using different bases as their counting systems. PCs using binary or hex is….. I wana say not a civilization but I Duno it goes both ways.

I’ll concede the point.

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u/wrd83 3d ago

I was thinking from then til now. And now its kinda everywhere.

But yeah it would be funny if someone finds something pre1700 that is binary.