Life the Universe and Time

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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:25:52 -0500, KR Williams <krw@att.biz> wrote:

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
uhhh... did you just add up fourty-two ones and get 1 as an answer?

One may be the loneliest number because it's the most useless as
a base since the number zero. ...or something like that...
 
In article <iaav601c5l0mii0n79el4pqehv9f4sorsm@4ax.com>,
philmarshall@hotmail.com says...
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:25:52 -0500, KR Williams <krw@att.biz> wrote:

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

uhhh... did you just add up fourty-two ones and get 1 as an answer?
uhhh, I wuz sleepin? Sheesh!

One may be the loneliest number because it's the most useless as
a base since the number zero. ...or something like that...
--
Keith
 
In article <MPG.1ad9f03b2b138a06989710@news1.news.adelphia.net>,
krw@att.biz says...
In article <iaav601c5l0mii0n79el4pqehv9f4sorsm@4ax.com>,
philmarshall@hotmail.com says...
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:25:52 -0500, KR Williams <krw@att.biz> wrote:

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

uhhh... did you just add up fourty-two ones and get 1 as an answer?

uhhh, I wuz sleepin? Sheesh!
'Cept, of course that you can't represent a '1' in base 1, and
the '1' symbol above can only represent the value '0', thus...

0*1^41 + 0*1^40 + 0*1^39 + ... + 0*1^0 = 0

Ok, does that work any better? ;-)


--
Keith
 

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