Re: prime numbers and African artifact

Michael Quinlan (mikeq@primenet.com)
Sat, 15 Jul 1995 02:44:08 GMT

dmckee@nmsu.edu (David Wayne McKee) wrote:

>** ALL integers can represented in ANY positive integer base **

>(are there negative bases, or non-integer ones?). The issue of finite
>representation only comes up with the fractional parts of rational
>numbers.

There are certainly non-integer bases. The value e is especially good as a
number base.

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