Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:20:04 -0700, John Ames wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:24:57 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

30 / 4  = ...?
30 / 12 = ...?
30 / 20 = ...?

 
Using letters a .. t to represent the 20 additional digits, in base-30
these become
 
10 ÷ 4 = 7.f0
 
10 ÷ c = 2.f0
 
10 ÷ k = 0.f0
 
Try something a bit less simplistic?
 
1 ÷ 3 = 0.a
 
All these fractions are exact -- no repeating digits.

 
Gotcha - that does strictly fit what I said, but I guess I was thinking
of even divisibility (no fractions needed for a fairly common divisor)
as an additional point of convenience.

All that does is make the fraction point move places left or right. That’s
no biggie, whereas recurring digits can be a bit of an annoyance.