I'm sure I've written a base-anything routine at some time in my life. Now that TW has some math tools, I imagine it should be possible to write a macro that handles up to base 36. The limit being the number of symbols you have to work with. I'm thinking 26 letters plus ten digits. But of course if you allowed mixed case or non-latin characters, you could extend that.
Except for base 16, I can't imagine it would get much use though. On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 4:58:11 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > TonyM wrote: >> >> Very interesting base 27. >> > > I think it is. > > Bio-bit: when I went to school I was part of a social experiment in UK on > what was called "Modern Maths". It died. And I still can't do long division > in my mind as they overlooked it. But you were taught young how to count in > any base. > > Consequently I can think in bases easily, and topology is a doddle for me. > > I often thought about trying to create a wiki concerned with variant > cultural counting systems. > My issue is I can't easily find a way to convert my knowledge so you could > have, say, a "base-17" calculator in TW. > > I think it could be interesting! > > Best wishes > TT > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0ebedb3a-5d24-432f-8eb7-971525c8c4d9%40googlegroups.com.
