this is exactly what i was trying to get at
this is exactly what i was trying to get at
what about numbers after 64? comment OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment
what about numbers larger than 16?
that’s fair, translating down is a good idea
we’d only be able to represent bases for numbers with one digit though because what does base 15+1 mean? the 15 could be in any base higher than 5. the clearest way would probably be to just represent it with lines or something “base ||||||||||”
take a look at The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber