Re: atomic

Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>David Cressey wrote:

[snip]

>> This is a joke, right? For radix n, n-1 has this interesting property.
>
>Shhhhh! You've ruined it! Now nobody will bother converting numbers to
>base 9 to see if it actually works. Spoilsport!

     I would not anyway, but then, that is my number theory course material going to good use.

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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