At least you can see where it came from:
1 * (0.1)^2 + 2 * (0.1)^1 + 3 * (0.1)^0 = .01 + .2 + 3
It sheds more light on the computations being used than anything else, but
at least it's reasonable. In the sense that any integer base b is b%1, hence
a rational, why not use other rationals?
As this Wikipedia article points out
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer_representation), base 0.1 reverses
the order of digits in a decimal number. With some decimal point effects
too.
AHS
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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:31:04 -0600
From: "Don Guinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Re: A stunning (to me) revelation about J
(G. Canyon)
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How about?
0.1b123
3.21
On 6/3/07, Arved Sandstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's probably not as remarkable as it sounds. :-) The most basic
operation
-
that of doing _3b1202, or suchlike - will happen correctly even if the
implementor only ever thinks of positive bases.
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