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Philip A. Marshall
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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:25:52 -0500, KR Williams <krw@att.biz> wrote:
uhhh... did you just add up fourty-two ones and get 1 as an answer?In article <1080865446.703652@excalibur.osa.com.au>, cjh-
nospam@nospaManagesoft.com says...
Active8 wrote:
42
XLII
101010
0x2a
052
1 base 42
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 (base 1)
Oh my no, that doesn't work.
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 (base 1) is still '1'.
1^41 + 1^40 + 1^39 + ... + 1^0 = 1
One may be the loneliest number because it's the most useless as
a base since the number zero. ...or something like that...