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Binary base correction
Posted By: Wolfspirit, on host 206.47.244.93
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 15:39:29
In Reply To: On Two's complement posted by Wolfspirit on Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 13:17:47:

> > > I am still 10^5 however.
> > >
> >
> > You mean 10^1001, don't you?
>
> Sort of. I should be 10^101 if we are to be fully consistent. Unless you are thinking of a different method.
>
> (Hey, now there's an interesting mathematical coincidence... 2^5 and (10^101 or 10^5) just happen to be equally descriptable! Cool. And I am also palindromic...)

Um, if I'm going to make math jokes it helps to get them right. So that should be,

10^5 or 100000 in Binary and (10^101 which is 2^5 in Base-10) are numerically equivalent.
Therefore, 10^5 = 2^5 in a loose manner of speaking.


> And Famous, congratulations... You'll be a *fully* palindromic 10101 when Nov 24th rolls around :)
>
> Wolfspirit

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