Chapter 12. Unusual Bases for Number Systems

This section discusses a few unusual positional number systems. They are just interesting curiosities and are probably not practical for anything. We limit the discussion to integers, but they can all be extended to include digits after the radix point—which usually, but not always, denotes non-integers.

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