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Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (8 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 months ago (7 children)

1 11 111 1111 11111 111111

That's base 1. By convention, because it doesn't really fit the pattern of positional number systems as far as I can tell, but it gets called that.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I get it, was reading as base 2 and confused by that. Essentially Roman numerals without all the fancy shortcuts.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Closer to tally marks without clustering

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