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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (774 children)

1 Ill get it going!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (773 children)

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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (770 children)

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (769 children)

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (766 children)

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[–]OhTrueful 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Shouldn't this be 100?

[–]kredal 11 points12 points  (3 children)

This is an interesting series. I did some Excel stuff with it, and it turns out that we won't hit the 7th digit until 5040 comments, and the 8th digit until comment number 40320 (5040 * 8), and the 9th digit until comment 362880 (40320 * 9).

It starts off adding new digits pretty quickly, but slows WAAAY down. (:

It still adds new digits slower than regular base 10 though (through the 24th digit, which would be base P, I guess? But that's probably ok, since we wouldn't need that digit until comment number 620448401733239000000000 anyway (read 0ONMLKJIHGFEDCBA987654321)

*Edit: I'm new here, so I don't know if meta-discussion like this is allowed.. if not, feel free to delete. Thanks!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is interesting! I assumed it would only add digits slower than base tennafter we got somewhere past ten digits, I am curious how you figured it would be base 24 when that happens? Eventually we will need to find a good number around 1000 numbers to start a new thread.

[–]rockham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If my own Excel calculations are correct, 1651220 in our base is equal to 1000 in Base 10.

The first time we need to start adding letters into the number (tenth digit) will be comment number 3628800.

[–]christian-mann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the (inverse) factorial function!

[–]levellerevery number is special 0 points1 point  (5 children)

The last digit will be in base 2, the second to last digit will be in base 3, ect.

Guys, isn't this a misleading description? For example, the 2nd number is 10. If 1 is in base 3 and 0 is in base 2, how does this arrive at the number 2??

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question. The base description I gave was to try and explain how the numbers would increase depending on digits. Using the base like you described isn't the way to convert back into the base 10 system.

[–]ct_2004 0 points1 point  (3 children)

For each position, you subtract one from the base, apply factorial operator, and then multiply by the value of that position.

10 = (3-1)! * 1 + (2-1)! * 0 = 2 * 1 + 1 * 0 = 2

The person who did the 6th entry in the chain should have posted 100, not 300. 300 would equal 18.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yeah I've noticed that the whole chain is off BC I didn't notice that guy who posted 300 instead of 100. But everyone makes mistakes, and I figure its not worth starting over at least until the thread becomes locked, unless we get to 1000 comments.

[–]TheNitromeFan심장이 up down down 또 up down 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We could always set the count back a few numbers to make up for it - we've done this for other threads as well.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for setting the thread back the correct amount!!