/lit/ - Literature

>>11036005
>that's not how it's conveyed on the image
it is, integers are never separated with any symbols when they're used in different base number systems(except for spaces sometimes used in binary to denote sets of eight bits)
so in the comic we don't know if they're saying one-zero or "ten", the ambiguity is the joke
the fact that an alien is using arabic numerals is a premise for the joke that has to be accepted (suspension of disbelief)