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Last time we saw that ! That is, 2 base 10 is equal to 10 base 2. No joke!
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Bases are about powers and places.
How would Fraudini write these numbers? | ||||||||
47 | = | 32 | +8 | +4 | +2 | +1 | ||
89 | = | 64 | +16 | +8 | +1 | |||
How would we write these numbers in base 2? | ||||||||
47 | = | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
89 | = | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
How can we understand this base-2 representation? In terms of powers and their places, obviously!
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One strategy to is convert from the starting base to base 10, then to do partition with a tree.
Here's an example: Convert 6257 to base 3.