Compute pi to base 12 using Python?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Wed Apr 13 08:28:29 EDT 2005
In article <1113390479.738210.49530 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"Dan Bishop" <danb_83 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But there's no reason other than tradition why you should arrange them
> into groups of 10.
Well, it is traditional for people to have 10 fingers :-)
Other fun things to think about are negative bases. For example, 3(10) =
111(-2). That's 1*(-2)^2 + 1*(-2)^1 + 1*(-2)^0 = 4 - 2 + 1. I can't
think of any use for negative bases, but they are a fun game to play with
(if you're into that sort of stuff).
Non-integer bases are fun too.
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