On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote:
Guess it should have been a problem involving a 3 digit number with 0for the middle digit. Then, a base of -17 would be equivalent to a baseof +17.
Well, now we know what base we're calculating in where 54 = 3 * 27, which incidentally answers the "new math" implied-question that started this whole thing.
Adam
