Linear time baseconversion

[jonas.thornvall at gmail.com]

Den tisdag 30 juni 2015 kl. 01:11:51 UTC+2 skrev Ian:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:39 PM,  <jonas.thornvall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> http://jt.node365.se/baseconversion8.html
> >
> > Back of the envelope mental calculation, that appears to be quadratic,
> > not linear. Doubling the length of the input results in an approximate
> > quadrupling of the time taken to produce the output.
> >
> > That noted, this is off-topic for this list, which is for discussion
> > about Python. Please take this to somewhere else like
> > comp.lang.javascript instead.
> 
> By the way, I think you have a bug. I did my time testing by
> concatenating the default input number to itself several times. At
> 5184 decimal digits, which was the last case I tried, the 58th output
> digit was 1111111, after which point the remaining 672 output digits
> are all 12665464, which seemed rather improbable.

It isn't i used the power to check with wolfram, but there is a plus 1 bug as ben noticed.

But not in this slower version.
http://jt.node365.se/baseconversion5.html