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  • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyz•ProbablyEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I mean it only works with nouns that are not ending on vowels and also not every noun works good. But I heard this from people all over Germany. Mostly in a mocking way, like someone was eating too much and complaining about stomach pain:
    “Oh, tut dir der Bauchi weh?”

    Other commonly used examples I can think of:

    • Lurch - Lurchi (amphibian)
    • Frisch - Froschi (frog)
    • Hund - Hundi (dog)
    • Mutter/Vater/Oma/Opa - Mutti/Vati/Omi/Opi (mom, dad, grandma, grandpa)
  • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyz•ProbablyEnglish
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    17 days ago

    In German this literally translates to something like “cute sand man”. Because in German you can just add an " I" at the end of any noun to make it sound cute and small. So “Sandi” can be thought of as a kind of diminutive of the noun “Sand”, similar to “Bauchi” from “Bauch” which is stomach. The correct dimunitve of “Bauch” would be “Bäuchlein” but this refers more to the perceived size of the object.

  • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Every base is base 10English
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    5 months ago

    Wow I never thought about that.

    But it is always like this:

    let there be any base "b"
That can represent a number by the sum of their positional digits:

number = sum(d_i * b ^ i)
   where i is the position index and d_i is the digit at this position. (note: index starts with 0, from the least digit farthest to the right)

    So the (decimal) number 4 in base 4 is then

    1×4¹ + 0×4^0 = 10

    And (decimal) number 8 in base 8 is

    1×8¹ + 0×8^0 = 10

    And 10 in base 10:

    1×10¹ + 0×10^0 = 10