So far we've been busting up numbers in different ways. The first
way was illustrated by the number 1729, and its base 10 representation.
When we say "Seventeen twenty nine", what do we mean?
What does each of the digits in the number 1729 mean?
- The story of base 10....
- Place value -- each power has its place
- One of my favorite early introductions to bases was Tom Lehrer's New
Math.
- What's the story of base 2? Of base 8? Of base 20?