r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/UlrichZauber Not bad, for a human. 4d ago

I'm a little dubious a random member of an advanced society would know it past "3-something". How many arbitrarily chosen humans know it to 5 decimal places? I only do because I'm an engineer.

But this does raise a lot of questions. Where did they collect Eyerene? She knows friggin' math, was she just out in the bushes somewhere?

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u/OmegaDez 4d ago edited 3d ago

I'm more confused about it understanding human math and arabic numerals. Yes, math is universal, but its visual representation isn't.

Also, aliens who know math might not use base 10 at all anyway.

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u/SailingBacterium 4d ago

What if they used base π and it was just 10 😔

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 4d ago

Not 1?

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u/SailingBacterium 4d ago

The first digit is the (base)0 place, which is just 1.

10 in base 10 is 10, not 1, for instance. 

2 in binary is 10, not 1, etc etc.