Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 24, 2003, 23:16 |
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H. S. Teoh wrote at 2003-02-24 18:01:58 (-0500)
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> Peter's system is basically identical to "normal" or "traditional" octal,
> except that where there is a 0, it is substituted with 8 and the digit in
> the next place is decremented. For example:
> 105 normal octal = 85 Peter-octal ;-) (the leading 1 is gone after
> the decrement)
> 1302 normal octal = 1282 Peter-octal
> 2005 normal octal = 1785 Peter-octal
> 1005 normal octal = 785 Peter-octal
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This is a very interesting system, which I hadn't seen before. Does
anyone know of any historical numeric systems operating on this basis?
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