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Formatting BaseForm Output

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg39133] Formatting BaseForm Output
• From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
• Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:07:40 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Evaluate the following in Mathematica  

In[1]:=
    BaseForm[3914, 16]

and the output looks like  (f4a  with 16 for a subscript).
What if you wanted the output above formatted as one of the following
   0xf4a,  0x0f4a,  0xF4A, 0x0F4A   which are often used by programmers.

As far as I can tell it isn't possible to do that using BaseForm options 
(there are none), MakeBoxes or Format definitions.  I could, without too
much 
trouble, make my own function  HexForm[n]  that would compute the hex digits

and format the output.  It would just be more elegant to use the built-in 
BaseForm if possible.

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Thanks,
   Ted Ersek