What a sweet time it was...

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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 68 pts · 5d (3 replies)

Everyone I've ever met had an age which is only one number. Did your age use to be a 3D vector? And now it's... a quaternion?

wieson@feddit.org · 25 pts · 5d (1 reply)

Please don't rotate my age...

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 5d

Oh man, I miss my past life when my age wasn't yet an octonian.

NewDark@lemmy.today · 40 pts · 5d (9 replies)

Say what base right now

zitrone@europe.pub · 7 pts · 5d (6 replies)

2 makes sense

assuming "age" means years since birth and "numbers" means digits, op would be younger than 8

charokol@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 5d (4 replies)

Why not 9?

zitrone@europe.pub · 2 pts · 4d (3 replies)

1000₂ = 8₁₀ has 4 digits in base 2
111₂ = 7₁₀ has 3 digits in base 2

charokol@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 4d (2 replies)

Oof. When I first read this posts my mind was somehow reading “base 2” as “base 10” and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around what I was seeing. Sleep has made everything make sense

zitrone@europe.pub · 1 pts · 4d (1 reply)

i mean base 10 is base 2 if you write the base as base 2

charokol@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 4d

Let’s just say that’s what I was thinking

greyhathero@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d

I mean it would have to be at least base 4 given the text.

M137@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 5d (1 reply)

I read it as days, so 2.73 years. Or months, 83.33 years.

That thing where some mothers say "oh he/she's X days/months old" for kids that are way beyond where that's relevant.

NewDark@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 5d

Oh interesting take. The unit is different but still base 10. That would certainly be the more normal way to think about it...

inari@piefed.zip · 28 pts · 5d (1 reply)

Life took a dark turn after 999

Siethron@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d

I think they're so old that humans weren't around when they were born

Zarobi@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 5d

Guys we found the vampire

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 5d

You a turtle?

Viceversa@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 5d (2 replies)

Like 100?

undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 5d

They said 3 numbers, not 3 digits. So, I am assuming 7, 28 and 36.

kettuli@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5d

Or 627, whichever suits you.

blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 5d

... in weeks?

So, it stopped being sweet at 19 years?

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 4d (1 reply)

420 is the highest age.

Renat@szmer.info · 5 pts · 4d

No. The higghest age is 255, beacuse there is age overflow and human turn into being 0 age.

rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 5 pts · 4d

What?

You mean 1 digit?

Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4d

Did a Djinn post this?

Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 4d

I also fondly remember my life when I was a mere 999 years old.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d

3.5
????

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d

I remember the pleasant days of being 509.

slaacaa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4d

999 weeks old?