@Huy, do u mean the mapping is done at random and even the base is chosen
randomly?
Regards,
Mahendra Kariya
http://www.mahendrakariya.blogspot.com


On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Huy Phan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Actually it's 31536000 (not 31356000) and 12314555(not 1231455) as
> described in the problem.
> Let's say the input is ab2ac999 then you have ['a','b','2','c','9'] is
> the set of characters.
> We can map this set to another set : [3,1,5,6,0].
> Which mean character 'a' represents for 3, 'b'->1, '2'->5 .....
> then you have the number 313560000, after that you can choose whatever
> base for this number, here in the example, they choose 10.
>
> if you choose the set [1,2,3,4,5] to map, and with base 6, you will have
> the second result.
>
> Mahendra Kariya wrote:
> > can someone explain how ab2ac999 is  31356000 in base 10 or 1231455 in
> > base 6?
> >
> >
> > >
>
>
> >
>

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