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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right? (sopuli.xyz)
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Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

strings are in base two, got it

[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't the answer be "10" in that case?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 41 points 4 months ago

yes, if I could do maths

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

1+1=11 means base 1

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How so?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

1 11 111 1111 11111 111111

That's base 1. By convention, because it doesn't really fit the pattern of positional number systems as far as I can tell, but it gets called that.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I get it, was reading as base 2 and confused by that. Essentially Roman numerals without all the fancy shortcuts.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Closer to tally marks without clustering

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who calls it that? Who even uses that enough to have given it a name? Seems completely pointless...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Theoretical computer scientists, historians of mathematics.

I'm not sure where I heard the term exactly, but I know I have multiple times.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing this, it's quite interesting. I found a Wikipedia article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system

Apparently, as you did suggest, "base 1" is a name that is used, but is somewhat a misnomer.

The article mentions that Church encoding is a kind of unary notation, which I would not have thought of, but I guess it is.

Enjoyable little rabbit-hole to zap my productivity for the day.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

No problem!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

That's unary.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Strings are in base whatever roman numerals are.