Alien has 4 fingers...nice touch

all your base are belong to us

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

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And it works just as well, if we reverse the roles:

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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?

Based.

This post made me decide to go to sleep because I'm too fucking tired for this shit

Thanks

1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30…

So should I be saying base 9+1?

Oh, sorry we're base 22

Oh fuck oh shit I'm too high to handle this RN!

A base-neutral system for naming numbering systems (by jan Miseli) is my favorite solution for this problem.

"You must mean Base 22"

Is this from the Hail Mary trailer?

Base 1 is the only universal counting system.

They are using base 1111 and base 1111111111. Instead of digits, you can represent numbers using rocks, if needed.

Base 4 but indexes start at 1

My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850... (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)

The only true base is binary. I'm not even kidding, I still sometimes convert numbers to binary for the sake of simplifying operations if I'm tired. Have you ever tried calculating square roots in binary? It's shockingly easy compared to decimal.

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