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

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 15:25:28 CST

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    Ken Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote (converted to plain text):

    > 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. 

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