• amda@feddit.nl
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    10 days ago

    People don’t usually change the name of the number when working in different basis so you would in fact just say “ten”. If the actual representation was important you would say “one, zero, one, zero”. I don’t think people would say one thousand and ten as the word thousand is more about the actual number than the string “1000”.

    You can use other round quantity when working on other basis, like a dozen or a gross in base twelve.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah but ten is the name for the concept of this many: iiiiiiiiii. Not for the symbols 1 and 0 in that order.

      So if I said “that’s ten”, I would be looking at “1010”

      If I were to send a “0010” over an interface as a test for example, I would say: “now I’m sending two. Are you recieving two?”