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6 Sep 2024 21:20:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Nerd joke variation  
From: Invisible
Date: 16 Oct 2008 09:53:55
Message: <48f74773$1@news.povray.org>
>> I think 10.01 (base-phi) is more fun.
> 
> That would be 10.0011, wouldn't it?
> Still, rather neat.
> 
> Hmm, actually 10.01 gives the same result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phinary

"A base-φ numeral that includes the digit sequence "11" can always be 
rewritten in standard form, using the algebraic properties of the base φ 
— most notably that φ+1 = φ2."


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