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Tally marks are just a base-1 numbering system
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It is logarithmic size, it's just the special case of log~1~. The implication being the higher the base, the more efficient the encoding.
Edit: ~1~ is supposed to be subscript, but it's not showing properly in my app. Idk what it looks like for others
Log base 1 is undefined, no? It's like division by zero.
PS: it looks like subscript.