base32 uses 26 letters and 6 digits
you can consider a byte to be base 256 also, variable integers that use a continuation bit are like a compact base 128 encoding
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i mean, keep in mind, you can represent 8 bits as a symbol with a grid of 2x4, that's really not that complicated a set of symbols. also there will be a natural set of symmetries to them, inverses, and mirrors and rotations
Yes, but saying something like "the least number not expressable with fewer than 3 base 10 digits" (1000) is not an interesting framework. This is meant to draw attention to how loose treatment of what feels like rigorous definitions leads to problems.
Ignore that I messed up my example slightly with 1000 instead of "100" above. Just reread it
yeah, sloppy definitions is why i hate dynamic typed languages. i have enough trouble with getting sequence and signs in a muddle with my dyslexia to then pile on top of it ambiguity.
Yeah, it was these types of issues that spurred efforts at formalizing logic in last century, my understanding. Language like this, when not more carefully built up, can do all sorts of self referential tricks.
Even when you do make the efforts to make it concrete, you gave issues as Gödel famously showed a bit later. Just kinda cool to trip out on imo
yeah, paradoxes are real enough though. even though they by definition don't make sense. but sense itself couldn't exist alone. it has to have a spooky slanted upside down inside out back to front, and reverse form.
like what i was saying about imaginary numbers. what exactly says that multiplying negative numbers should lead to an inversion of the sign? that would imply that it's actually a number itself, like one and zero, and the multiplication is *addition* but when you multiply *negative* numbers you XOR the "sign" bit. which is how it's implemented, also. why does it have to be XOR on the sign? it could be AND or OR, so you can only get a negative answer if both are negative, or that any negative and both are negative, instead of the flip-flop of repeated multiplication with a negative does.
my point being that it's not a scale, it's a vector, and the vector is time and space.
the fact that these spooks have utility tells you that the vectors relate to the "sense" of things as much as the nonsense.