[Tutor] built in functions int(),long()

[Lloyd Kvam]

 > Base(* * * * * * * * * *) ?

Base one (like Roman Numerals)

Magnus Lyck=E5 wrote:
> At 12:47 2003-06-19 -0600, Bob Gailer wrote:
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>> "base 10" is ambiguous. We usually interpret that to mean the decimal=20
>> system, but an 8 fingered alien who counts in octal would say "base=20
>> 10" and it would mean octal.
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> Oh no Bob. There are only 10 reasonable ways to
> understand the number 10. The right way, and the
> wrong way! :)
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> Actually, it might be better to write "base(9+1)"...
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> (Now you know it, I'm a dolphin and I only have
> two flippers... ;)
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> It's funny btw, I've mentioned before that I feel
> that Jeff Shannon often seem to write just what I
> am thinking, and today (oops, yesterday, it's past
> midnight again) we both felt that we had to print
> a sequence of asterisks to present numbers. Maybe
> that's the only unambiguous way?
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> Base(* * * * * * * * * *) ?
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> Perhaps the positional number system is fundamentally
> flawed?
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> (Or as the father in Patric Leconte's "The Hairdresser's
> Husband" put it: "What is the difference between an
> ordinary dog and a binary dog?
> The ordinary dog has one head, one tail and four legs.
> The binary dog has one head, one tail, one leg, one leg,
> one leg and one leg." :)
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> Magnus Lycka (It's really Lyckå), magnus@thinkware.se
> Thinkware AB, Sweden, www.thinkware.se
> I code Python ~ The Agile Programming Language
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