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Haha! I actually made the connection when viewing the recent Veritasium video on p-adic numbers. They were walking through an proof of how ...9999 = -1, becaus
by SilasX 3y ago
Haha! I actually made the connection when viewing the recent Veritasium video on p-adic numbers. They were walking through an proof of how ...9999 = -1, because if you add one to it, it yield zero. I was like, that's just like two's complement, and how you represent -1 by filling the places with the largest representable digit!
https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2023/6/6/the-most-useful-numbers-youve-never-heard-of https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2023/6/6/the-most-useful-n...