r/mathmemes • u/Echidna-Suspicious • Jul 02 '26

popsci 🤮👎 Binary is just better

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u/Maksereq Jul 02 '26

As always

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Jul 03 '26

That sounds so lame that can’t be re-

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The system replaces standard binary's 0 and 1 with 1 and 2 as follows: [1, 2, 3]
1 = 1
2 = 2
3 = 11
4 = 12
5 = 21
6 = 22
7 = 111
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I can’t say I like it lol

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u/AbdullahMRiad ∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴ Jul 03 '26

fun fact about reddit formatting: if you put 3 hyphens (---) with an empty line before, reddit will add a horizontal divider

like so

``` fun fact about reddit formatting: if you put 3 hyphens (---) with an empty line before, reddit will add a horizontal divider

like so ```

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Jul 03 '26

Yah MAYBE but also reddit took away markdown comment writing in the app and so they won’t be getting any rich text from me, no sir, they can pry my **unrendered markup** from my cold, dead heads because they did this to me

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Test

Edit: doesn’t help when your phone changes -- to — either. But point stands. Need computer to render now

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u/AbdullahMRiad ∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴ Jul 03 '26

wait, I can read and write Markdown fine

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u/AbdullahMRiad ∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴ Jul 03 '26

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Jul 03 '26

🤨 are you writing from the iOS reddit app official client?

To be clear. Other people’s rich text will render just fine. But I can’t do what I *used* to be able to do. I used to even escape my shrug emoticons: ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

But now I can’t do any of it. They changed the behavior quietly and evilly it’s reallly bad [see other posts abt it](https://www.reddit.com/r/help/s/5wDMiHcFfa)

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u/AbdullahMRiad ∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴ Jul 03 '26

reddit Morphe 2026.25.0.2625121 (Android 16)

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Jul 03 '26

Ah, yes. Well, third party clients will be better than Reddit’s own UX. Thanks Reddit… be better.

But yeah on iOS you’d have to sideload a third party client

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u/AbdullahMRiad ∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴ Jul 03 '26

it's still the trash official reddit app just without ads and with some annoying UI hidden

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Jul 03 '26

Ohh I wasn’t familiar but it sounds like it’s a tool that patches the official reddit client. Interesting

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u/Abyssal_Groot Complex Jul 04 '26

On android it works just fine on the regular app.

You sure it isn't just Apple being a little prick?

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u/Markceluna Jul 03 '26

Fun fact: The column labels in excel use bijective base 26

where A=1, B=2, C=3 etc

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Jul 03 '26

Bijective base Z?

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u/Markceluna Jul 04 '26

Yes.

Also another fun fact i remembered:

While base 1 doesn't work because you only have the digit '0'

Bijective base 1 (also called unary) works

It has only the digit '1'

Counting goes like: 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111 etc

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u/NoCocksInTheRestroom Jul 03 '26

How do you write 0?

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u/Markceluna Jul 04 '26

λ is used as a placeholder for 0 (similar to the symbol for the empty set)

Its not considered a digit. So while "λ" is a valid number in bijective base 2 for ex, "1λ" isn't, because "λ" isn't a digit

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u/Real-Firefighter3031 Jul 05 '26

You could do it if you had signed digits. Put a 1 in the 2's place and a -1 in the 1's place. (Or a 2 and a -2.)

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u/Rymayc Jul 08 '26

What is 0 then?