4 Mar
2003
4 Mar
'03
12:45 a.m.
Does anyone know of research on representing numbers via real irrational bases?
--Dan
There was some research done and reported last year of so about e being the optimal base. The gist of it was, binary has too few digits, so binary representations become too long to be manageable. Large bases like 16 have too many digits, so the representation is short, but you have to manage 16 digits for each place. With some appropriate analysis, the best base turned out to be e. Kerry Mitchell