Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Base

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What can I add here? I don't know. Third base.

2 comments:

One Brow said...

I'm lost on this one. could you spell it out for me, please?

(x, why?) said...

I debated adding a knife to explicitly show them cutting off their base numbers, but chose not to.

They're "de-basing" themselves.
Ironically, "debase" means to lower in value, but 57 has a greater value in base 10 than in base 8.