There are only 10 types of people:
the ones that expected a binary joke, and
the ones that expected a ternary joke, and
the ones that expected a quartenary joke, and
…
And it works just as well, if we reverse the roles:
🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
🪨Human: There are 11 rocks.
Alien: Oh, you must be using base A. See, I use base 10.
Human: No, I use base 10. What is base A?
1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30…
Alien has 4 fingers…nice touch
You mean 10 fingers
Oh, you must be using base 4. You see, Phoenix alpha uses base 10.
Oh, sorry we’re base 22
Is this from the Hail Mary trailer?
Correct
Oh fuck oh shit I’m too high to handle this RN!
all your base are belong to us
A true classic. My only regret is that I cant link it in the original shockwave.
So should I be saying base 9+1?
Based.
Only works in written form. Unless the alien says the number as one-zero.
Also, in a bijective number system, every base is 11. (they don’t have 0)
edit: not true, brainfart
There is nothing about 10 in its pronounced form that means it HAS to come after 9.
No. If you write 11 in base b, bijective number system or not, that’s b+1, not b.
