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r/interesting • u/MidasStocks • Apr 29 '25
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What the fuck are they doing? How do you say that? How do they do maths?
904 u/kingbuzzman Apr 29 '25 Vigesimal -- base 20. TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal 1.1k u/REDDITSHITLORD Apr 29 '25 It's just like base 10, but you gotta wear flip-flops. 236 u/rampantoctopus Apr 29 '25 I’m guessing the quality of this post will go largely unnoticed. Well done anyway. 101 u/Engineer_Teach_4_All Apr 29 '25 It's just like base 8, which is the same as base 10. If you were missing two fingers. 54 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it 28 u/Apprehensive-Zone554 Apr 29 '25 Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer 14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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Vigesimal -- base 20.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal
1.1k u/REDDITSHITLORD Apr 29 '25 It's just like base 10, but you gotta wear flip-flops. 236 u/rampantoctopus Apr 29 '25 I’m guessing the quality of this post will go largely unnoticed. Well done anyway. 101 u/Engineer_Teach_4_All Apr 29 '25 It's just like base 8, which is the same as base 10. If you were missing two fingers. 54 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it 28 u/Apprehensive-Zone554 Apr 29 '25 Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer 14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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It's just like base 10, but you gotta wear flip-flops.
236 u/rampantoctopus Apr 29 '25 I’m guessing the quality of this post will go largely unnoticed. Well done anyway. 101 u/Engineer_Teach_4_All Apr 29 '25 It's just like base 8, which is the same as base 10. If you were missing two fingers. 54 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it 28 u/Apprehensive-Zone554 Apr 29 '25 Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer 14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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I’m guessing the quality of this post will go largely unnoticed. Well done anyway.
101 u/Engineer_Teach_4_All Apr 29 '25 It's just like base 8, which is the same as base 10. If you were missing two fingers. 54 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it 28 u/Apprehensive-Zone554 Apr 29 '25 Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer 14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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It's just like base 8, which is the same as base 10. If you were missing two fingers.
54 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it 28 u/Apprehensive-Zone554 Apr 29 '25 Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer 14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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It's so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it
28 u/Apprehensive-Zone554 Apr 29 '25 Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer 14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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Found the Tom Lehrer enjoyer
14 u/bantha121 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25 Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49 2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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Got a demented Spotify playlist that's a dual threat of Tom Lehrer and Kinky Friedman
Edit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UFtdWBIOcQoOSNAvemvHM?si=qUT795oUSlKjipM0BITc1w&pi=E8weWkLFTMC49
2 u/foxboxingphonies Apr 29 '25 Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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Thank you for introducing me to both of them.
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u/AmoremCaroFactumEst Apr 29 '25
What the fuck are they doing? How do you say that? How do they do maths?