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How do I tell the Base Conversion Calculator how many digits there are?

I do not understand how to use the Base Conversion Calculator to convert from, say, Base 25 to, say, Base 16 and tell it how many digits there are. The number 23 COULD be 2:3, but it could Also be 23, two digits or one digit. Do you know how to tell it what the digits actually are? Please tell me. I created my own base converter, I called it the Positional Number System Converter, and I spent months and months working on it. That was before I learned about Logarithms, and found out how much easier it is to do everything I'd figured out how to do without them. Mind==blown! http://www.clipular.com/c/6423607620141056.png?k=X8mpJuho7vfzuB4J8uiJJWpGN-c

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Yes, that answers my question, thank you. So, why is it that when Mathematica Displays a number in a high base it does not do so in letters? When I tell it to convert from base 10 to base 25 it displays the number in the higher base using ":" between base 10 numerals. Thus my frustration. The input method should match the output, and it does not, Except when converting to or from Hexadecimal, base 16.

POSTED BY: Marco Thiel
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