On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote:

Guess it should have been a problem involving a 3 digit number with 0
for the middle digit. Then, a base of -17 would be equivalent to a base
of +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

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