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minus-square@niartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agowhat about numbers larger than 16?
minus-square@harmsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoThere are still 20 more letters that can be used as stand-ins. Things will get interesting if you try to go past Base 36, though.
minus-square@niartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agothis is exactly what i was trying to get at
minus-square@harmsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoOr use ancient scripts like Phoenician or Glagolitic.
minus-square@yetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoWe’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
minus-square@niartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agowhat about numbers after 64? comment OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment
what about numbers larger than 16?
There are still 20 more letters that can be used as stand-ins. Things will get interesting if you try to go past Base 36, though.
this is exactly what i was trying to get at
Make up a new symbol?
Or use ancient scripts like Phoenician or Glagolitic.
We’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
Base /+1 lol
what about numbers after 64? comment OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment