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Re: ot: on a base being a power of another

From Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: ot: on a base being a power of another
Date 2021-11-24 11:14 -0300
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"james...@alumni.caltech.edu" <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 1:46:14 PM UTC-5, Meredith Montgomery wrote:
> ...
>> Using your example, I get 
>> 
>> 210012_3 = a[5]*3^5 + a[3]*3^3 + a[1]*3^1 
>
> That should be 210012_3 =
> 2×3^5+ 1×3^4 + 0×3^3 + 0×3^2 +1*3^+ +2×3^0 =
> (2×3 + 1)×3^4 + (0×3 + 0)×3^2 + (1×3 + 2)×3^0 =
> 21_3 × 3^4 + 00_3 × 3^2 + 12_3 × 3^0 =
> 7×9^2 + 0×9^1 + 5×9^0 =
> 705_9
>
> I hope that helps you understand why conversion between a given
> base and an integer power of that base is much simpler than other
> Kinds of base conversions.

Oh, it does.  Funny --- this is what I thought it was from the start,
but I totally got confused with my calculations and never collected the
terms properly like you just did.  That's really what I was looking for
and that explains it clearly.  Thank you so much!

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ot: on a base being a power of another Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-11-20 18:08 -0300
  Re: ot: on a base being a power of another Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-11-20 22:22 +0000
  Re: ot: on a base being a power of another Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-11-20 22:27 +0000
  Re: ot: on a base being a power of another James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-11-20 18:08 -0500
    Re: ot: on a base being a power of another Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-11-23 15:43 -0300
      Re: ot: on a base being a power of another Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-11-23 19:57 +0000
      Re: ot: on a base being a power of another "james...@alumni.caltech.edu" <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-11-23 16:53 -0800
        Re: ot: on a base being a power of another Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-11-24 11:14 -0300
  Re: ot: on a base being a power of another Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-11-21 05:41 +0100

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