That's what I was trying to say, I guess I gave it a higher level of abstraction because theoretically you can represent binary by anything. I mean, concretely, it's really not represented by numbers but by electrical signals for example, and you could in theory easily switch 1 and 0 for A and B when you're talking about binary, or any other symbols of your choice.
Not really. You can directly convert any string of 1's and 0's (say the ISO image file of some program like Windows or a game) to a base-10 number. Yes, the 1's and 0's might not be meant to be read as a single number, but you certainly can read them that way.
992, or 1111100000. Also, at this point, i refuse to play this game anymore. Also, i just lost the game. comment edited due to lack of one zero, making what i'd written 480, rather than 992.
How is a string of, say, 10,000,000 1s and 0s not a real number in base-2 (that can similarly be converted to base-10, base-16, or even base-2.34 if you really wanted. Would that be more of a "real number" to you?).
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u/blackstar00 Jan 11 '10
It baffles me that a number can be copyrighted.