| From: | Rebecca Bettencourt <beckiergb@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 5:38 |
I've also heard of a base 2i that avoids the arbitrariness of representing complex numbers. It was proposed by Donald Knuth in 1955, apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base The other bases we've been discussing are all collected here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_number_representations -- Hasta la pasta, Rebecca Bettencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ I tried the real world once; didn't really care for it.