pdpi wrote:
... But since 10 = 2 * 5, all numbers that can be finitely represented in
binary can be represented finitely in decimal as well, with the exact
same number of  places for the fractional part (and no more digits
than the binary representation in the integer part)

OK, so base 30 is the obvious choice, digits and letters, and 1/N works
for n in range(1, 7) + range(8, 11).  Gödel numbers, anyone? :-)

--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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