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    5 hours ago

    Wut?

    10 binary = 2 decimal

    10 decimal = 1010 binary

    Where are we getting 11?

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      3 hours ago

      10 is the base (2) overflowed by 1 (zero indexed) which kind of translates to 10+1 base 10 (1 indexed). I didn’t really mean in in mathematical but rather nonsensical way. I just wanted to pull 11/10