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On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:47:38 -0700 (PDT), jonas.thornvall@gmail.com
declaimed the following:

>No i don't i say the operations assume base ten other wise INT A=7,B=4 Calculate C=A+B would not yield 11 as an answer. The programming languages assume integer operations are done in base 10, at least the one where you can not specify in what base the integer arithmetic is done. And there probably is such languages, Python maybe?

	Unless you are using COBOL, where the default for integers is BCD, the
"integer operations" are done in binary... The language
compiler/interpreter merely assumes that /literals/ found in the /source/
are decimal by default; and output conversion is from binary to decimal
representation.

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