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Baseless number system (gokcehan.github.io)
2 points by gokce 4729 days ago
1 comments

You've reinvented polynomials.

1

x + 1

x² + 2x + 1

x³ + 3x² + 3x + 1

...

You can think of Pascal's triangle as repeated multiplication by (x + 1).

hmmm, so every new digit is the coefficient of the next power?

(i.e. (x+1) = 1x^1 + 1x^0 => 1:1)

it makes sense, haven't thought about it..