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Base-13, tridecimal, tredecimal, or triskadecimal is a positional numeral system with thirteen as its base. It uses 13 different digits for representing numbers. Suitable digits for base 13 could be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, and C, although any 13 characters could be used.
In the end of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, a possible question to get the answer "forty-two" is presented: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" Of course, the answer is deliberately wrong, creating a humorous effect – if the calculation is carried out in base 10. People who were trying to find a deeper meaning in the passage soon noticed that in base 13, 613 × 913is actually 4213 (as 4 × 13 + 2 = 54, i.e. 54 in decimal is equal to 42 expressed in base 13). When confronted with this, the author stated that it was a mere coincidence, famously stating that "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13." See also The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Base or BASE may refer to:
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You're so pathological I know all you say are lies
You're in disguise as A girl that I thought I knew
Now your nothing but the girl I wish I never knew
Well I was blind to all the things you did to me
Now your darkness covers farther than the eye can see
Well I can see your true face through the masks you wear
And I have seen more than any man can bare
My eyes go white at the thought of you
I'll know I'm dead when your finally out of my head
One day you'll find that you should've changed
Until then you'll have to deal with your fame
Well I was blind to all the things you did to me
Now your darkness covers farther than the eye can see
Well I can see your true face through the masks you wear
And I have seen more than any man can bare
When I can't breathe it's like my lungs can sense when you're near me
Why did I wake up from this trance you put me in
Only to find out that you have been dancing with him
All along!
All along!
When I can't breathe
It's like my lungs can sense when your near me
Why did I wake up from this trance
Why did I wake up from this
Why did I wake up all along
Well I was blind to all the things you did to me
Now your darkness covers farther than the eye can see
Well I can see your true face through the masks you wear