Not All Number Base Systems Are Created Equal

Not All Number Base Systems Are Created Equal
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This is what happens when mathematicians play Dungeons & Dragons! The meme brilliantly assigns alignment charts to different number systems. Decimal (10) gets "Lawful Good" because it's what normal humans use. Binary (2) is "Neutral Good" - simple but essential for computers. The number 42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question per Hitchhiker's Guide, rightfully earns "Chaotic Good" status.

Octal (8) is "Lawful Neutral" - organized but rarely used outside programming. Five is "True Neutral" - just vibing in the middle. Seven gets "Chaotic Neutral" because it's mathematically interesting as a prime number but refuses to play nicely with most calculations.

The bottom row is pure mathematical evil: 1 as "Lawful Evil" (try dividing by it and nothing happens!), imaginary number i as "Neutral Evil" (√-1 breaks reality), and tree(3) as "Chaotic Evil" - a number so incomprehensibly large from Kruskal's tree theorem that it makes mathematicians wake up screaming. Number theory has never been so perfectly categorized!

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