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g was learning about number bases in school. being heavily gifted with the smartass gene from his father, he took the idea to the extreme. base 1. he concluded there are an infinite number of ways to write the number 1. 1, 01, 100, 00010000, are all 1. i pointed out there is no 0 in base 1. he countered he was using the zero to indicate which digit, which "place", he was using. you know, 42 has a 4 in the 10s digit and 2 in the 1s digit. ie 42 = 4*10^1 + 2*10^0. and in base 1, 010 has a 0 in the 1^2's place, a 1 in the 1^1's place, a 0 in the 1^0's place. ie 010 = 0*1^2 + 1*1^1 + 0*1^0 = 1. qed. geek pwned by my 9 yo. maybe i am getting old.