From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Subject: Re: number_base
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:33:06 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-11-03T10:33:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbqcbn2.m1.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: okbcqv8st85ammpljb42pm84h6fpskioq7@4ax.com
* Dmitry A Kazakov wrote:
> Wasn't it actually e or Pi? I remotely remember something like that.
e is the most efficient base to store large numbers. Unfortunaly hardware to
the base e is difficult to develop. That's why most systems choose the next
natural number around e to store date to this base.
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2003-10-30 10:10 number_base Peter Hermann
2003-10-30 19:11 ` number_base Frank J. Lhota
2003-10-31 12:45 ` number_base Peter Hermann
2003-10-31 13:12 ` number_base Martin Dowie
2003-10-31 20:58 ` number_base Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-03 10:32 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-03 10:33 ` Lutz Donnerhacke [this message]
2003-11-03 17:11 ` number_base Frank J. Lhota
2003-11-04 3:43 ` number_base Wes Groleau
2003-11-04 10:59 ` number_base Preben Randhol
2003-11-04 13:32 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-04 14:13 ` number_base Preben Randhol
2003-11-04 14:33 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-31 18:26 ` number_base Mike Silva
2003-11-03 10:22 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-03 12:52 ` number_base Peter Hermann
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2003-10-30 16:16 number_base amado.alves
2003-10-30 23:27 ` number_base Randy Brukardt
2003-10-31 8:29 ` number_base Marius Amado Alves
2003-10-31 13:18 ` number_base Peter Hermann
2003-10-31 15:15 ` number_base Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-10-31 16:28 ` number_base Peter Hermann
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