Practice problem
Other Integer Bases (Binary, Ternary, Etc.)
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On the faraway Planet Forg lives an advanced civilization of green sentient beings with two hands and seven fingers on each hand. Interestingly, their numbering system is in base thirteen instead of the base-ten system used on Planet Earth.
"Why not fourteen?" asks Arthur, a space explorer visiting Planet Forg.
"A prime base is better, so we picked the next prime down," says Gersh, a famous Forgian mathematician.
"I suppose humans should have used nine instead," says Arthur.
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with Earthlings," laughs Gersh.
"In our number system, what do you get when you multiply six by nine?" asks Arthur.
What does Gersh answer?