Re: Fwd: Re: Mersenne: Re: Base e arithmetic

2000-02-12 Thread Sandy Harris
Pierre Abbat wrote: > Gosper's representation uses seven digits, the sixth roots of 1 and 0, > in base 2.5+sqrt(-3/4). Where do I find out more about that? _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne

Fwd: Re: Mersenne: Re: Base e arithmetic

2000-02-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
>This led to a discussion as to whether or not it is possible to have a number >system based on a non-integer base. Maybe the great minds of GIMPS >can contribute to this. Base phi is easy to compute in. The similar Fibonacci representation counts the integers as follows: 0,1,10,100,101,1000,100