Converting Between Bases
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg36662] Converting Between Bases
- From: "flip" <flip_alpha at safebunch.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 02:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello, I was looking for a function that can convert numbers between bases. For example, going from Base 3 to Base 9, or from Base 16 to Base 8. It seems like I have to a few steps and then use BaseForm to convert to the desired end base. Is there a single command or simple function to do such conversions? For example, ConvertBase[from_, to_, num_] would convert from base to base 9 using the number num as the number to convert (it would best be allowed to let users input in that specific base since they'd be going from base 3 to base 9, for example so maybe num is needed at all). Thank you, Flip