Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Base

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What can I add here? I don't know. Third base.

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2 comments:

  1. One BrowThursday, June 09, 2011 8:41:00 AM

    I'm lost on this one. could you spell it out for me, please?

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  2. (x, why?)Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:51:00 PM

    I debated adding a knife to explicitly show them cutting off their base numbers, but chose not to.

    They're "de-basing" themselves.
    Ironically, "debase" means to lower in value, but 57 has a greater value in base 10 than in base 8.

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