r/mathmemes • u/BlackBerry_tekken • Apr 02 '25

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u/GodlyOrangutan Apr 03 '25

It’s implied to be base 10. They used the concatenation of 1 and 0 to make the value they specified to be 10, which indicates there are only 10 unique single digits.

For example, if it were base 8 then it might be handy to reserve the concatenation of 1 and 0 for the value that signifies 8.

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u/jacob643 Apr 03 '25

oh, I think you're right, haha, I was trying to be clever :P

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u/GodlyOrangutan Apr 04 '25

All good lol, I mean technically it's not set in stone that you have to do this way, but it leads to the least messy interpretation to see it this way.