On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > When there's a simple ratio between the bases, it's fairly > straight-forward to convert a few digits at a time. Converting base > 256 into base 64, for instance, can be done by taking three digits and > yielding four. But within that, you would still need a complete table > of all sixteen million possibilities, if you want to do the lookup > table. And that only works when there is that kind of relationship.
You're right. I was thinking that for base 5 to base 7, for instance, one could read digits in groups of 7, but that doesn't work out; you can't map any discrete number of base 5 digits to a corresponding number of base 7 digits. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
