The math gods are crying up there

It's also useful for theoretically figuring out how aliens might count depending on how many fingers they have. Imagine if they have 6 fingers on two hands... what would be one block for most of us (10 fingers) would be 12 fingers for them. So, naturally their blocks would be based off dozens instead of tens, even though if you were trying to express the exact weight of something in some different conversions and they could understand the conversions, you'd get different ratios. like.. if one flash of all your fingers = an oz, for you and the alien each finger would have a different ratio of that oz.

it's why, with computers we wound up with shit like 1024 instead... it's just easier to manipulate in base 2 (0's and 1's instead of 1-9)
Side Note; IIRC, Arrival does a pretty good job of showing what base pi would be like.

I have no idea what #-base is

how many fingers do you have? 10? Hopefully? Think of that as one block. If an alien has 6 fingers on each hand, that means the 12 fingers make up the same idea as one block
12 alien finger = 1 block = 10 normal fingers. block squared = 144 in alien, but 100 in normal

but if you're just counting blocks, both are block and block squared instead of 144 or 100... in essence 144 and 100 are the same fucking thing.

Okay, this makes more sense. but why would we be counting in blocks or bases, like, what is the application thereof?

division, specefically easy factors of division to work with. Go fuck with 7's and 3's... code that... it's nuts. 3's aren't as difficult... but 7's are a monstrosity.
Before all this started, Nero was 666 and God's number was 777. <--- that shit ain't a fluke.

Ah, thanks man!

777 <,<

Anyway, gotta sober up before homie smokes me out. Fucked up contradiction is that?! I was gonna watch Ralph 2 but... (@internet .... <_< my nigga)... Idk.... Now my encyclopedia of comedy has turned me into a cyclops of comedy.
@guest_ I would love a fact check.if I were wrong bout that 777 part.

Watch it and you'll have made an enemy for life

Sorry, freindo :)

777 is considered by many to be “Gods number.” It’s said in the Bible that God rested on the 7th day after creation, the Father of Noah was said to have lived 777 years.... there’s lots of numerology in the Bible and 7, numbers divisible by 7, etc. come up often by coincidence or by design. Other religions and theologies consider 7 to be a very important number. In Islam there are 7 hells and heavens and 7 circumbulations around the kaaba etc. To many cultures it is lucky, a symbol of perfection or universal base. As an interesting note on 7- In Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy the computer “deep thought” says the meaning of the ultimate question is 42. 42 is divisible by 7. Adams was a computer guy and in ASCII “42” denotes an asterisk- an asterisk being a “wild card” character that means whatever you want it to mean. In other words- deep thoughts answer was “whatever you want it to be” since deep thought was a computer that though highly advanced was still quite simplistic.

I never knew that 42 part. That's awesome.