Re: Base function
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- Subject: [mg88186] Re: Base function
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Szabolcs Horvát wrote:
> haitomi wrote:
>>
>> ((1*12 + 4)*11 + 4)*10 + 4
>>
>> 1804
>>
>> I need help with a function find the Calander "base"
>>
>> Cbase[1804,{12,11,10}]
>>
>> out put will be
>> {1,4,4,4}
>
> I don't understand the question. Why shouldn't it return e.g. {1, 3,
> 15, 4} ? After all, ((1*12 + 3)*11 + 15)*10 + 4 == 1804
>
All right ... Now that I read the other responses, I understand what the
question was. But it still wouldn't hurt if you tried to formulate the
problem precisely. Maybe it would even lead you to the solution ...
I searched Google, Mathworld and Wikipedia for "Calander" and "Calander
base", but all I could find is that "calander" is either a misspelling
of "calender", which is a machine used in making paper, or an obsolete
variation on the spelling of the name of a species of lark.
So I still have no clue about where you got this term from. I would be
glad if someone could enlighten me.