<div dir="ltr">Andrew,<div><br></div><div>What would be usage for base 1 except "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">least surprise</span>"?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Max</div><br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr"><div>How base 1 works? Could you explain to me please? Is it number or digits after dash?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Typically, the value of a base 1 is the number of 1's. So three in base ten would be 1#111.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_1" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_1</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>As Masklinn points out, the digits used don't really matter because we're just evaluating the length. It could be X's, 3's, or chicken scratches, zeroes, capital I's, or a mix of 1#AlPhAbEt SoUP. Though I think for clarity, we should select a single permissible character and stick to it. Something like tally marks.</div>
</div><div class="im"><div><br></div>-- <br><div></div>Cheers,<div><br></div><div>Andrew Pennebaker</div><div><a href="http://www.yellosoft.us" target="_blank">www.yellosoft.us</a></div>
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