Re: Base conversion: not enough rope

2011-05-07 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 05/06/2011 10:25 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > S02:3185-3280 does a nice job of explaining what can and cannot be > done with the radix syntax (i.e. :2<1010> etc). I'm left with two > questions, however: > > * If :2<1010> is the way to way to "interpret" a string as a number in > base two, giving the

Base conversion: not enough rope

2011-05-06 Thread Carl Mäsak
S02:3185-3280 does a nice job of explaining what can and cannot be done with the radix syntax (i.e. :2<1010> etc). I'm left with two questions, however: * If :2<1010> is the way to way to "interpret" a string as a number in base two, giving the number 10 -- what's the way to go in the other direct