Re: Inoue Kikuko's age WAS Re: [Sakamoto Maaya] Kiseki no Umi


to seiyuu@ML.usagi.org
from "Kevin Lew - 'The Lai-Lai Boy'" <kasumi@eden.com>
subject Re: Inoue Kikuko's age WAS Re: [Sakamoto Maaya] Kiseki no Umi
date Fri, 4 Sep 1998 08:58:54 -0500 (CDT)
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Lin Jie Derek wrote:

> CuSO4 wrote:
> > 
> > Or do you mean : between 14 (Ohmori Reiko) and 16 (Inoue Kikuko).
> > ^_^;;;;;
> > 
> > You know, anyone using base28 numbers is advanced enough to be treated
> > as goddess.  ^_^;
> 
> She isn't using base 28, if she was then she would be 3 * 28 + 4 = (I don't even

> want to calculate it). No, she's using base 4. 3 * 4 + 4 = 16. Only that 34 is
> an illegit number in base 4 (^_^;;;)

Okay, obviously everybody must be confused on what the term "base" means.

Yung was absolutely right.  She is using "base 28".

I'm not sure how you got your system of "3 x 28 + 4".  You take the base
and multiply it by the number in the column.  Like this:
   16 in "base 10" is:
     (1 x 10^1) + (6 x 10^0) = 16
   16 in "base 16" (what everybody calls hexadecimal) is:
     (1 x 16^1) + (6 x 16^0) = 22
   16 in "base 28" is:
     (1 x 28^1) + (6 x 28^0) = 34, which is Inoue Kikuko's true age.
     
If you think about it, you can't have a number higher than your base.  So
you can't have a 6 in a base 4 system.

Here's how you would write 34 in base 4:
   (2 x 4^2) + (0 x 4^1) + (2 x 4^0) = 202.
      2           0           2

(NOTE:  For you non-programmers, 4^# means "four raised to the power of".
         Any number raised to the power of 0 is "1".  Yes, 0^0 = 1.)

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