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Barrie

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Registered: 2025-03-12

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Maths

1234n=2538 base five. Now find the value of n

Barrie

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Registered: 2025-03-12

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Re: Maths

Please i need someone to help me solve it.

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,702

Re: Maths

hi again.

I've partly answered your other number base question.  But this one ??? Did you just throw together some numbers to ask this?

In any number case the column headings are n^3    n^2    n    and units.
The only digits that are allowed are those smaller than n.

So

2538 base five

would never occur. 5 and 8 don't exist as digits in base 5.

Bob

If you want more help on number bases you could look here:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/bases.html

or post again, but not in this area of the forum, but rather in the help me section.

Bob

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ktesla39

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Re: Maths

Ya there are only 5 numbers in base 5 system (quinary). So how can there be 8 in it?

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