Shoutout to Bruh_Vista for beta-reading and providing extensive feedback for this chapter!
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"Actually, it isn't that far off. The standard strategies work," the Sect Leader followed up with a shrug.
"For example-"
Two numbers: 1011 and 1001 appeared one on top of the other.
"If we are to add 11 and 9 in decimal digits, it's summing 1 and 9 in the unit's place with a 1 carrying over to the tens place, which gets added to a one. So, 20. In binary, you add the ones in the 2^0, the 1 and 0 in 2^1 and the ones in 2^3, so-"
The addition resolved to get: 2012.
"But since we can't have a number greater than one, we need to start carrying over. A 2 in 2^0 means that you can basically add a 1 to the 2^1, so-"
2020
"A 2 in the 2^2 is basically a 1 in the 2^2, so-"
2100
"A 2 in the 2^3 is 1 in the 2^4, so we can add another binary place/"
10100
