Re: Calculating in other bases than 10

On 18.02.2025 10:59, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

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BTW, Kornshell operates with bases up to 64 and I wonder what symbols
are used for that. Tests show that it depends on the base; for small
bases letters in caps are handled like lowercase letters, for larger
bases using caps matters, and for some bases we even get errors, e.g.
 
$ echo $((37#ff))
570
$ echo $((37#FF))
ksh: 37#FF: arithmetic syntax error
 
Looks like a bug to me.

...but it isn't! - As I've been pointed out base 37 just means that
0-9, a-z, and A are accepted as digits, which of course makes sense.

Janis