How to change bases?

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(11-30-2019 07:21 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(11-30-2019 02:41 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Since that syntax is undocumented and hardly intuitive, how on earth did you discover it? I usually find the stories behind such discoveries (think the 42S hex table at Taco Bell) at least as interesting as the actual result itself.

Simplified answer: By playing with it.

Complete answer: By trying as many possible inputs and syntaxes and permutations thereof as I could think of... preferably ones which are NOT described in any documentation. That, of course, is exactly the method that we old-time PPC members used to discover the hidden features and bugs in the old HP models. That method still works, and is still fun, even when it doesn't discover anything, because it's a form of play.

I play with it every day and would have never come up with that!