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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Tally marks are just a base-1 numbering system (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 7 months ago by NateNate60 to c/showerthoughts

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and every fifth digit is just put in an odd place

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It is logarithmic size, it's just the special case of log~1~. The implication being the higher the base, the more efficient the encoding.

Edit: ~1~ is supposed to be subscript, but it's not showing properly in my app. Idk what it looks like for others

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Log base 1 is undefined, no? It's like division by zero.

PS: it looks like subscript.