all your base are belong to us
A true classic. My only regret is that I cant link it in the original shockwave.
Maybe I can help then:
https://archive.org/details/allyourbase
Oh, sorry we’re base 22
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.
Is this from the Hail Mary trailer?
Correct
Amaze! jazz hands
1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30…
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!)
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
…
We have N fingers, naturally.
Alien has 4 fingers…nice touch
You mean 10 fingers
Oh, you must be using base 4. You see, Phoenix alpha uses base 10.
That’s base 22, for all the base 10 users out there.
This post made me decide to go to sleep because I’m too fucking tired for this shit
Thanks
A base-neutral system for naming numbering systems (by jan Miseli) is my favorite solution for this problem.
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?
(hexadecimal)
Roman : There are XI rocks.
Base 4 but indexes start at 1
Based.
So should I be saying base 9+1?
for that one alien, you may say :
“base 3 + 3 + 3 + 1”
For universal other sentient beings, say :
“base 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
+ 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1”“I’m 16, but in base 1, I’m 10000000000000000 years old. My ID just needs to be updated.”
Since in base 2 you have two numerals that are (0, 1) …
Then, in base 1 you would have only one numeral.
if it was (1) then you could write :
( , 1, 11, 111, ...)
With a sign (-) for negative numbers :
( ..., -111, -11, -1, , 1, 11, 111, ... )
I think the best way I’ve seen was to just poke the number of holes in the dirt or draw a picture, labeling them until you get to your base switching moment.
Oh fuck oh shit I’m too high to handle this RN!
