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> There’s no such thing as a “four-digit number”, only a four-digit base-10 numeral Being further pedantic - aren't all digits base ten? I thought that was par
by joehx2 3y ago
> There’s no such thing as a “four-digit number”, only a four-digit base-10 numeral
Being further pedantic - aren't all digits base ten? I thought that was part of the definition of digit.
Other bases would have different words for their numbers - bit in binary, for example (which, yeah, I know, it a combination of the words "binary" and "digit").
- selcuka 3y ago> Other bases would have different words for their numbers - bit in binary, for example Do we have another example? I don't think there are special terms for "octal digits" or "hexadecimal digits".
- Anon84 3y agoIf you really want to be pedantic, you say that every base is base 10 :) (in its own representation)
- codeflo 3y ago> Being further pedantic - aren't all digits base ten? I thought that was part of the definition of digit. We call computer circuits "digital" even though they work in base 2. Regardless of the word's origin, digits are simply the symbols in a positional number system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit