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Re:Emirp Primes by etaioinshrdlu on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:54AM (#19816162)
I do also find the amount of recreational math focused on base 10 to be disproportionate to the interestingness of base 10.
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Re:Emirp Primes by tempguy9999 on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:41AM (#19819388)
Come on, mate, don't tease me with that and not offer your suggestions!

Fractional bases, negative bases, negative fractional bases, base e (supposed to be optimal IIRC), perhaps complex bases, summat weirder?

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Re:Emirp Primes by etaioinshrdlu on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:07PM (#19820764)
The one true number base: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base
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