Re: Assigning a plane for mapping digits for many different bases

From: Hans Aberg (haberg-1@telia.com)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 16:50:05 CST

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    On 8 Mar 2011, at 22:25, Doug Ewell wrote:

    >> For example, suppose I needed, for some reason, the write the number
    >> 1927631 (base 10) expressed in base 360. The base 360 digits for that
    >> are 14, 314, and 191. I could then easily express the number as
    >> {{14},{314},{191}}_360
    >
    > Or even:
    >
    > {{14},{314},{191}}₃₆₀
    >
    > thus further proving that existing Unicode characters, without markup,
    > are sufficient.

    One might, more succinctly, use ":" as separator, in view of that is already in use in the case of time for hours, minutes and seconds, like in 25:31:37.348 = 25:31:37₆₀.348₁₀ = 1:01₂₄:31:37₆₀.348₁₀ when the base changes to count days and fractions. The example above then becomes:
      14:314:191₃₆₀

    This shows that those specifications are only needed occasionally, if the context is unclear.

    Hans



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