Re: number base conversion

Tristan McLeay wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Joe wrote:
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>>Well, that's not the most sensible system, anyway.  Surely A should
>>equal (decimal)10.  If that's the case, it's 48OJ
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>But the point is to generate words, not perform arbitrary maths in bases
>greater than ten. Hence base-26: there are twenty-six letters (not
>counting case) in the English alphabet, none of which are the digits 0-9.
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Oh, right.  Sorry, I missed most of the converation. Damn.

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