Comment on "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols

Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah fair. The idea seemed pretty self contained when I started writing (oh if you decouple the number system from the place value system you get multiple representations of the same value, neat), as I got going I had to keep editing it as I thought more about it. I was just trying to explain the showerthought and it spiraled from there.

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• FiduciaryOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Made me laugh out loud, thank you 🤣

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