'So my question remains: is there a purpose that a function base-n (xby) will accept "foreign" digits without complaining..?' asks Martin Kreuzer. This question and its generalizations pops up now and then. Lets turn it around: is there a purpose complaining rather than accepting a generalization?
--- Den søn 10/5/09 skrev Martin Kreuzer <[email protected]>: > Fra: Martin Kreuzer <[email protected]> > Emne: [Jprogramming] Base Notation > Til: [email protected] > Dato: søndag 10. maj 2009 09.21 > > While fumbling around with base > notation, I found > > 5b34 > > 19 > > 5b35 > > 20 > > 5b36 > > 21 > > while I was waiting to see an error message for the > second and third > > case (using digits not in the set for this base, > beyond 0 1 2 3 4). > > This is puzzling me. > > Seems consistent to me. > 5b36 > There are 6 "ones" (5^0) and 3 "fives" (5^1), that makes > 21. > > Obviously you can get 21 using 5b41 too. > > --- > > Thanks, Ric & Devon... > > Let's take another example to make myself a bit more > clear: > > 2b1010 > 10 > 2b2020 > 20 > 2b3030 > 30 > > I'm ready to admit that I can plainly see how this result > is > generated (as Ric pointed out); however I've never come > across any > binary integer of the form 2020 or 3030. So my question > remains: is > there a purpose that a function base-n (xby) will accept > "foreign" > digits without complaining..? > > > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090509-0, 09.05.2009 > Tested on: 10.05.2009 07:21:15 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > Trænger du til at se det store billede? Kelkoo giver dig gode tilbud på LCD TV! Se her http://dk.yahoo.com/r/pat/lcd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
