Re: Assigning a plane for mapping digits for many different bases

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2011 - 07:44:54 CST

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    On 03/09/2011 06:56 AM, André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:
    > 2011/3/9 Hans Aberg<haberg-1@telia.com>:
    >> Dots are also used for IPv4, but it becomes ambiguous if one needs a fractional part.
    >
    > Oh, quite a lot of people use "," for fractional parts...

    I suppose in a sense the convention of using , to separate out groups of
    three digits (or spaces, in some locales) can be seen as an example of
    using base-1000.

    ~mark

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