Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

  • Doc Avid MorningtonEnglish
    0•3 months ago

    Who calls it that? Who even uses that enough to have given it a name? Seems completely pointless…

    • @CanadaPlus
      3•3 months ago

      Theoretical computer scientists, historians of mathematics.

      I’m not sure where I heard the term exactly, but I know I have multiple times.

      • Doc Avid MorningtonEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        Thanks for sharing this, it’s quite interesting. I found a Wikipedia article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system

        Apparently, as you did suggest, “base 1” is a name that is used, but is somewhat a misnomer.

        The article mentions that Church encoding is a kind of unary notation, which I would not have thought of, but I guess it is.

        Enjoyable little rabbit-hole to zap my productivity for the day.