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From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Base conversion (was Re: Brain Teaser)
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Date: 18 Oct 89 09:42:30 GMT
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>	Write a routine that will convert from one base to another.
>       function convert(base : integer; input_num : string) : string;

Can anyone extend this to cover multi-base arithmetic with fractions?
For example, 1.4(8) should convert to 1.1(2) and
10.875(10) to A.E(16)


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Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN
E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk, phone 031-225 4464 extension 212
`I have read your article, Mr Johnson, and I am no wiser now than when I
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