On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Linda Walsh <b...@tlinx.org> wrote: > > > DJ Mills wrote: > >>> OK. �How about if that sentence began with `When specifying n, the >>> digits greater ...'? >> >> >> declare -i foo; foo=20#a2; echo "$foo" >> 202 >> >> [base#]n, 'base' is a INTEGER 2-64, then '#', followed by the number. > > > > ^^^ That's much more clear!
But then one could think that the integer 0xa is a valid base which is not the case since it's not a decimal number
