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To: clyde asbury

In base 3,

2 + 2 = 11

This is not an academic exercise, since in hexadecimal 8 = 7 = F, important in letting us talk like this.


214 posted on 11/19/2004 2:29:03 PM PST by furball4paws ("Facts are very stubborn things" - Peter Wimsey)
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To: furball4paws

Oops!

8 + 7 = F


220 posted on 11/19/2004 2:42:03 PM PST by furball4paws ("Facts are very stubborn things" - Peter Wimsey)
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To: furball4paws
These other systems do not change the fact that 2 + 2 is 4.

Pick any base you want, do all the conversions, it still equals 4. Not the symbol '4,' but the quantity. Change the names; it doesn't change the quantity.
224 posted on 11/19/2004 2:46:43 PM PST by clyde asbury (Hope this is what you wanted. Hope this is what you had in mind, because this is what you're getting)
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