Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 5:27 |
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Peter Clark wrote:
> Also, how does one go about converting the base of non-integer numbers?
Division. For example, to convert, say, .125 into duodecimal, divide 1
by 8, using a duodecimal multiplication table, so, just as the first
step in long division in decimal would be 8 divided by 10 (1), so you
divide 8 by (duodecimal) 10 to get 1 with a remainder of 4, then 8 by
(duodecimal) 40 (= decimal 48) you get 6 with a remainder of 0, so .125
in decimal = .16 in duodecimal
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