EXPLORATION 1: What are these machines actually doing?
Can you figure out what these machines are actually doing?
Why, in a 1←10 machine, is the code for two hundred and seventy three "273"?
Are all the codes for numbers in a 1←10 sure to be identical to how we normally write numbers?
If we can answer this question for the 1←10 machine, then can we make sense of all the codes for a 1←2 machine? What does the code 1101 for the number thirteen mean?
Comment: Of course, we will answer these questions in the next island, Insighto, but it might be rewarding to think about these ideas questions on your own first!