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Which leads to the interesting question: if this happens in base 10, but not (trivially) in base 2, what other bases does it happen or not happen in?
by fredley 11y ago
Which leads to the interesting question: if this happens in base 10, but not (trivially) in base 2, what other bases does it happen or not happen in?
- ghurtado 11y agoI think you may have missed the joke.
- allemagne 11y agoHe got the joke, but was also taking it seriously as a phenomenon that could have interesting implications. This finding obviously doesn't hold base 2 (more accurately, isn't an applicable concept), and apparently becomes more pronounced in base 3.
- Phemist 11y agoOnly in bases that are itself prime ;)
- kba 11y agoIt's a joke. The last digit of a binary number is parity (odd or even). Since all primes (except for the number 2 [or 10 in binary]) are odd, the last digit will of always be 1.
- fredley 11y agoYes, I am aware of that (hence 'trivially') thank you!
- pc86 11y agoIn the other HN post there is a comment stating that it's a fairly significant occurrence in base 3 as well.