hey guys....could sumbody help me please?
- PaRaDoX
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10 in base four is not "ten"
its "four" (2+2)
in base ten, the first number is ones, then tens, then hundreds, right?
well, in base four, its ones, then fours, then sixteens, etc. (no single digit may be over 3)
example:
take the number 301 (in base ten, or normal numbers as you know it)
in base 10, these digits work like this:
3 0 1
3x4^3 0x4^2 1x4^1
see how that works?

replace the fours, with say, fives to get base 5, and so on, and so on. ^-^

~You are a glitch in my reasoning.
As PaRa said, Base 10 is regular counting, since we have 10 fingers and that likely the first way humans started counting. So when you are using base 4 you are counting by 4's, base 5 by 5's and so on... so to represent base 4 in binary 1 in binary =1, 10=4, 100=16, and so on... Like I said though it can give you a migraine 

- PaRaDoX
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aha, but binary only has one and zero! so you can only count by (digit times column #^2)plope0726 wrote:As PaRa said, Base 10 is regular counting, since we have 10 fingers and that likely the first way humans started counting. So when you are using base 4 you are counting by 4's, base 5 by 5's and so on... so to represent base 4 in binary 1 in binary =1, 10=4, 100=16, and so on... Like I said though it can give you a migraine
hah~

~You are a glitch in my reasoning.
Another reason that it gives me migrainesPaRaDoX wrote:aha, but binary only has one and zero! so you can only count by (digit times column #^2)plope0726 wrote:As PaRa said, Base 10 is regular counting, since we have 10 fingers and that likely the first way humans started counting. So when you are using base 4 you are counting by 4's, base 5 by 5's and so on... so to represent base 4 in binary 1 in binary =1, 10=4, 100=16, and so on... Like I said though it can give you a migraine
hah~
