Submitted 1 year ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
If 4 did not exist, then you would be using a base-4 quarternary numbering system (which is able to use the numbers 0,1,2,3)
The system will be similar to how our base 10 numbers work, but instead of counting to 9 before adding a trailing zero, you would count to 3. So 2 plus 2 would roll past 3, and equal 10.
Could also be using a base 3 or binary system. Or the ever elusive base 1 system.
How many of those do you have?
111
Technically a base 1 system cannot exist, because it would mean you were counting from zero (nothing). All base systems have to index from null. You couldn’t even count using 0, 00, 000, 0000 because how would you know if the first 0 indicated actually zero, or was it the first?
Number systems are weird. I hate math sometimes.
“Two plus two is… ten. IN BASE 4, I’M FINE!”
Posting while high should be a bannable offence.
You’ve inadvertently hit on the beginnings of an apparent paradox to do with the relationship between numbers and the counting numbers
Suppose the largest number you can have is X and the smallest number you can have is -Y. Then between -Y and X, you can count X+Y numbers which is clearly larger than X. But X is the largest possible number so X+Y doesn’t exist.
suppose the largest number
Gotta stop you right there. A largest number doesn’t and can’t exist. If we introduce one, paradoxes arise all over the place and the whole system falls apart.
Literally 1984
Have you ever considered
Yes, but Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
Perchance
There are only 10 types of people in the world…
Then you have modular arithmatic.
2+2=1
If you’re working in modulo 3 arithmetic.
Oh so that’s why big brother is telling everyone that 2+2=5 man if only the administry of truth did a better job at explaining his conclusions we wouldn’t have a need to re educate people
This is not StonerThoughts.
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Numbers are racist.
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TIL Jaden Smith is on Lemmy