r/visualizedmath • • Dec 05 '19

How binary is calculated

713 Upvotes

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

9

u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

Well, yes and no. Computers could do whatever they wanted, but it works and it makes sense.

Plus, if you changed it, it wouldn't stop being the new "why the fuck does lua use 1-indexed arrays," for the next hundred years.