NateNate60@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoTally marks are just a base-1 numbering systemmessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1133arrow-down1message-squareTally marks are just a base-1 numbering systemNateNate60@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 months agoIt is logarithmic size, it’s just the special case of log1. The implication being the higher the base, the more efficient the encoding. Edit: 1 is supposed to be subscript, but it’s not showing properly in my app. Idk what it looks like for others
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoLog base 1 is undefined, no? It’s like division by zero. PS: it looks like subscript.
It is logarithmic size, it’s just the special case of log1. The implication being the higher the base, the more efficient the encoding.
Edit: 1 is supposed to be subscript, but it’s not showing properly in my app. Idk what it looks like for others
Log base 1 is undefined, no? It’s like division by zero.
PS: it looks like subscript.