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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That would be reverse run length encoding. Also, Base 1 is just zero, everything equals zero.

123 = 000 = 0

456 = 000 = 0

123456 = 000000 = 0

123 + 456 = 123456

0 + 0 = 0

69 + 420 = 42069

[–] Snazz@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

Base-n is a numeral positioning system where the value of each digit is n times the value of the dight directly to its right.

We typically don’t let the maximum digit we use to be greater than or equal to n because then there would be multiple ways to express the same number.

However when working with weird bases, sometimes it’s useful to forgo this convention.