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And if you were using a base-8 numbering system, your numbering system would be base-10, right?
The symbols 1, 2, 3, et cetera are just that: symbols. Our Base-10 system uses 0-9. Binary, a Base-2 numbering system, uses 0-1. A Base-8 (or Octal) numbering system could use 0-7. In Base-10, once the single digit value reaches a value of ten, it reverts to zero and adds +1 to the value one decimal place to the left. In a Base-8 system the same thing would happen once the single digit value reaches a value of eight. Hence a Base-8 Gerbil numbering system would go from 17 to 20. Perhaps the following table will help illustrate this:
Book1_zps30f57b22.jpg

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Sorry jhnsn, this is now a maths thread.
 
The symbols 1, 2, 3, et cetera are just that: symbols. Our Base-10 system uses 0-9. Binary, a Base-2 numbering system, uses 0-1. A Base-8 (or Octal) numbering system could use 0-7. In Base-10, once the single digit value reaches a value of ten, it reverts to zero and adds +1 to the value one decimal place to the left. In a Base-8 system the same thing would happen once the single digit value reaches a value of eight. Hence a Base-8 Gerbil numbering system would go from 17 to 20. Perhaps the following table will help illustrate this:
Book1_zps30f57b22.jpg

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Sorry jhnsn, this is now a maths thread.

Finally, someone else that knows octal, even if I prefer hexadecimal.
 
お誕生日おめでとうございます!

Your teh bestest advisor ever, enjoy being older and such!

Ip is the the best advisor, sorry jhnsn
 
The symbols 1, 2, 3, et cetera are just that: symbols. Our Base-10 system uses 0-9. Binary, a Base-2 numbering system, uses 0-1. A Base-8 (or Octal) numbering system could use 0-7. In Base-10, once the single digit value reaches a value of ten, it reverts to zero and adds +1 to the value one decimal place to the left. In a Base-8 system the same thing would happen once the single digit value reaches a value of eight. Hence a Base-8 Gerbil numbering system would go from 17 to 20. Perhaps the following table will help illustrate this:
Book1_zps30f57b22.jpg

2Q==

Sorry jhnsn, this is now a maths thread.

I get this and understand octal, but if you lived in a base-8 world, you would call it base-10, because the eighth digit would be represented by 10. So to this base-8 world, we, with 10 fingers and toes, would be in a base-12 world.
 
I get this and understand octal, but if you lived in a base-8 world, you would call it base-10, because the eighth digit would be represented by 10. So to this base-8 world, we, with 10 fingers and toes, would be in a base-12 world.

*hard facedesk*
 
Happy Birthday, Kazoo!
You too, jhnsn.

Actually, it's pronounced Jonathan, you're all wrong :glare:

But thanks :P

Never, ever, pronounced it wrong.

No, but the Simpson's do(h)!

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And if you were using a base-8 numbering system, your numbering system would be base-10, right?

The Simpsons don't use a Base-8 system... It's a Base-10 system for them, even though they have eight fingers, because "their God" has 10. (That's a Base-10 10, not a Base-8 10).

Time for Math jokes!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary and those who don't.
 
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The symbols 1, 2, 3, et cetera are just that: symbols. Our Base-10 system uses 0-9. Binary, a Base-2 numbering system, uses 0-1. A Base-8 (or Octal) numbering system could use 0-7. In Base-10, once the single digit value reaches a value of ten, it reverts to zero and adds +1 to the value one decimal place to the left. In a Base-8 system the same thing would happen once the single digit value reaches a value of eight. Hence a Base-8 Gerbil numbering system would go from 17 to 20. Perhaps the following table will help illustrate this:
Book1_zps30f57b22.jpg

2Q==

Sorry jhnsn, this is now a maths thread.

I spaced out while reading this, then saw the world gerbil and was mildly interested.

Happy 19th jhnsn. Now go get a job so you can afford some vowels.



eighteen?
nineteen?

Or does rodent math use a Base-8 number system?

Don't judge rodent math is hard
 
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I considered providing an erudite response...but then I realized you are old and set in your ways :P

And I am right

If you count to 10 and you live in a base-8 world...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10

So, from your perspective, you live in a base-10 world.
 
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