Base systems Memes

The mathematical equivalent of creating your own language nobody can understand! This genius proposes Base ∞ where every number gets its own unique symbol—essentially making counting as efficient as memorizing the entire Unicode library. It's like saying "I've solved math by making it completely unusable!" The punchline about hesitating to ask questions is the chef's kiss—because who wouldn't have questions about a numbering system that's basically just assigning random hieroglyphics to integers? Computer scientists are quietly having panic attacks imagining the memory requirements for storing these symbols. Binary? Decimal? Hexadecimal? Nah, let's just assign emojis to every possible number and call it revolutionary!

What happens when mathematicians play Dungeons & Dragons? This alignment chart, but with number systems instead of personalities. Duodecimal (base-12) follows all the rules like a proper nerd. Hexadecimal (base-16) is just doing its computing job. Unary (base-1) is pure chaos—literally just ones all the way down. The chaotic evil "tree(3)" is basically mathematical nightmare fuel—a number so incomprehensibly large it makes Graham's number look like a rounding error. And that imaginary number "i" sitting there as neutral evil is perfect—it's literally the square root of negativity.

The equation "123 + 456 = 123456" is hilariously wrong in our decimal system, but it's actually correct if you're operating in base 1 (unary numeral system)! In base 1, numbers are represented by sequences of a single symbol - so "123" actually means "111" (or just 3 in decimal), and "456" means "111111" (or 6 in decimal). When you concatenate them, you get "111111111" (or 9 in decimal). It's like counting on your fingers but refusing to use more than one finger at a time. The bell curve shows the perfect distribution of people who get the joke - those who immediately reject it as wrong (left), those who understand the base 1 cleverness (right), and the blissfully confused majority in the middle who somehow think string concatenation is valid arithmetic. Mathematical humor at its nerdiest!