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

From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2011 - 05:18:52 CST

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    > {{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

    ... or even ".", in view of that it is in use in the case of the
    Meso-American Long Count Calendar (scientific notation), successfully
    employed even with mixed base (like with time data), based on a common
    convention. ;-)

    /Sz



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