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Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 18:30

Well, this is interesting: http://www.americanscientist.org/content/AMSCI/AMSCI/ArticleAltFormat/20035214317_146.pdf

/prog/ challenge: write some algorithms and a demonstrative program to convert between arbitrary bases. The bases can be fractional.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 18:34

What about complex bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 18:38

>>2
Good idea, bonus challenge

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 18:40

no-one on /prog/ has the attention span or math skills to do something like this

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 18:55

>>4
PIGS GO OINK AN KOWS GO MOOO

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 19:41

>>2
What about transcendental bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 19:44

>>6
Good idea, bonus challenge

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 19:55

What about irrational bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 20:00

What about quaternion bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 20:00

What about transfinite bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 20:20

What about vector bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 20:28

What about the bases that are belong to us?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:22

What about logarithmic bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:25

What about Freebases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:28

What about p-adic bases?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:31

The challenge is trivial and the article is not illuminating at all but rather a history text and adds nothing to new to the subject.

0/10

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:32

>>16 Continued

I would have rather seen more interesting theories on number systems such as how they effect search/sort algorithms or data structure creation.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:42

what about all ur base? XD

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 21:53

What about Visual Basic .NET 2007

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 22:22

>>18
Read the damn thread before you post, that's already been done.

And for the record, it wasn't funny the first time either.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-21 23:50

>>17
This post number is written in base π

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