Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases

Apollo Hogan scripsit:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > 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,
> One can also do it with Multiplication:  [...]
> For example, to convert 0.125 to base 7, we get: [...]
> A more interesting example, write PI in base 12:
Or for those of us with Real Computers:

$ bc
scale = 10
obase = 12
.125
.160
obase = 7
.125
.0606
obase = 12
3.141592653
3.184809490
^D

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