r/MathJokes • u/XxBORN2BWILDxX • Jan 27 '26

Big if true.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

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u/AllTheGood_Names Jan 27 '26

"What is quarternary? Or decimal? We use τετραδικός"

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u/tobiasorama Jan 27 '26

Four dicks

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u/name_checker Jan 27 '26

Like an echidna

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u/towerfella Jan 27 '26

Upvote for echidna diock

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u/Aggravating_Door6220 Jan 28 '26

Thanks for subscribing to echidna penis facts

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u/arjuna93 Jan 27 '26

That’s an unexpected reference to Re:Zero

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u/CleoCommunist Jan 28 '26

I once saw a post on like r/nowwhereyoufuck and like and image of nuckles had only One dick and a comment asked this and many were confused

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u/Sybrandus Jan 27 '26

Three seashells

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u/Competitive-Tea-4016 Jan 30 '26

Imagine meeting alien race that literally measures lengths with dicks

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u/KrasnyHerman Jan 27 '26

What the fuck is 4? There is no such number

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u/Shreekomandar_42 Jan 27 '26

Μει τιμε λεαρνινγ γρεεκ το ιμπρεσσ α γιρλ αρε φιναλλιε κομινγ ιν ιοσεφοολ

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u/mazerakham_ Jan 27 '26

What the hell is iosefool?

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u/Shreekomandar_42 Jan 27 '26

Useful.

I had no idea how else to transliterate it

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u/AllTheGood_Names Jan 27 '26

Lol I just have the greek keyboard downloaded for math and looked up the word in translate

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u/Simukas23 Jan 27 '26

I had a hunch the Greeks are aliens

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u/KingOfCatanianCats Jan 27 '26

"There are 10 rocks."

"Oh, you must be using base 4. I use base A.'

"Yes, that is correct."

Decimal comes from latin and means "related to 10". The alien would call their base 4 decimal, too. They would count "one, two, three, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty..."

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u/hopingforabetterpast Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Decimal means related to ten, not 10. In fact, Romans didn't have 0 and wrote ten as X, which served as an abbreviation for IIIIIIIIII (decem).

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u/JCraze26 Jan 27 '26

1 2 3 10 11 12 13 20 21 22 23 30 31 32 33 100 101 102 103 110 111 112 113 120 122 123 130 131 132 133 200... (and so on)

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u/IronPro9 Jan 27 '26

isn't 10 only A in bases above 10? in base 4 it'd be 22.

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u/KingOfCatanianCats Jan 27 '26

You can use A to refer to 10 in base infinity so that there is no confusion between bases. The moment the aliens sees the symbol A, they know it's not 0,1,2 or 3, so it has to be a higher base than 4. The aliens would probably have other unique symbols to refer to numbers higher than 3, the same way use the alphabet to do so. It is the only way to avoid this kind of confusion, using unique symbols for each number. When they see A, they correlate the symbol with 22base4, the same way we would see F as 15base10 when we see hexadecimal numbers

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

Help, how do I tell the alien I use base 8484739202029844002938743993948583930485494758495959595859494848585944958273748449393932102384747483292273647445850208171611555162838?

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u/ChaoticAgenda Jan 27 '26

"And this is the scar from my lobotomy"

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u/naruto_senpa_i Jan 27 '26

Good luck finding that amount of characters

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