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Renatreply

No. The higghest age is 255, beacuse there is age overflow and human turn into being 0 age.

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NeatNit
discuss.tchncs.de

Everyone I've ever met had an age which is only one number. Did your age use to be a 3D vector? And now it's... a quaternion?

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europe.pub

2 makes sense

assuming "age" means years since birth and "numbers" means digits, op would be younger than 8

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europe.pub

1000โ‚‚ = 8โ‚โ‚€ has 4 digits in base 2
111โ‚‚ = 7โ‚โ‚€ has 3 digits in base 2

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charokolreply
lemmy.zip

Oof. When I first read this posts my mind was somehow reading โ€œbase 2โ€ as โ€œbase 10โ€ and I just couldnโ€™t wrap my mind around what I was seeing. Sleep has made everything make sense

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Letโ€™s just say thatโ€™s what I was thinking

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M137reply
lemmy.today

I read it as days, so 2.73 years. Or months, 83.33 years.

That thing where some mothers say "oh he/she's X days/months old" for kids that are way beyond where that's relevant.

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Oh interesting take. The unit is different but still base 10. That would certainly be the more normal way to think about it...

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I think they're so old that humans weren't around when they were born

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