/u/redrumsir's mistake was a simple one -- transferring the property of arbitrariness from the choice of 10 as a base because humans have 10 fingers to the set of completely and entirely mathematical statements about numbers in base n where n happens to equal 10, about which there's nothing arbitrary whatsoever.
You can't do that, kiddo, maybe learn yourself some philosophy before trying a more object level science.
(note: the point that it's mathematical but not mathematically interesting, which she didn't even make I think, was nevertheless also soundly rebuked in the thread, by pointing out that for some weird reason we have a spigot algorithm for fast computation of digits of Pi in base 16 but not in base 10, which is interesting).
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-01-01
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n/a zahlman 2017-01-01
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n/a Mr_Thunders 2017-01-01
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n/a gh0stpanther 2017-01-01
Lol!!! Great find!!!
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-01-01
/u/redrumsir's mistake was a simple one -- transferring the property of arbitrariness from the choice of 10 as a base because humans have 10 fingers to the set of completely and entirely mathematical statements about numbers in base n where n happens to equal 10, about which there's nothing arbitrary whatsoever.
You can't do that, kiddo, maybe learn yourself some philosophy before trying a more object level science.
(note: the point that it's mathematical but not mathematically interesting, which she didn't even make I think, was nevertheless also soundly rebuked in the thread, by pointing out that for some weird reason we have a spigot algorithm for fast computation of digits of Pi in base 16 but not in base 10, which is interesting).
n/a riemann1413 2017-01-01
nice use of xkcd from when it was still funny
n/a nanonan 2017-01-01
Which is just a poor take on this.
n/a riemann1413 2017-01-01
/r/math: posts fun little 2017 facts
/u/redrumsir: knock it off, plebs.
what a guy
n/a nanonan 2017-01-01
Guess it was just 2spooky4him.