Bases

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.

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