BASE CONVERTER ANY BASE

josh · **Posted:** Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:02 pm

thanx for clearing that up. I didn't realize that a base just refered to the digits of a number, and not the number on a whole. Thanx Very Happy

guruguru · **Posted:** Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:10 pm

Glad to help! Razz

zeldamaster1230 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:25 pm

guruguru wrote:

23 is a valid number in base 5. Base 5 contains 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. If we converted it to our deciaml system, base 10, it would be around 12... I think... But yea it is a legal base 5 number.

Sorry, guruguru. Bases start at 0, not 1. So, s abase 5 would have 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 in it ... not the number 5, though.

josh · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:55 pm

how is it possible to have a base 12 then??? What would take the place of number 11 because 11 is 2 digets???

shorthair · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:47 pm

0123456789
ABCDEFGHI

once you reach the limit on 0-9 then you use the alphabet , its most common with hex which is base 16

sport · **Posted:** Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:54 pm

Thanks shorthair for explaining how the program works.

The program prosses each number by one digit or letter at a time (ABCDEF for hex), there a long number like 4124, will be processed by one digit at a time.

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