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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list