POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : B5 got nothin' on me! (59kbu) : Re: 30202 Server Time
3 Oct 2024 09:22:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 30202  
From: Mike White
Date: 5 Mar 2000 13:41:56
Message: <38c2aa74@news.povray.org>
Francois Labreque <fla### [at] attglobalnet> wrote in message
news:38C269FE.F40D9644@attglobal.net...
>
>
> Mark Wagner wrote:
> >
> > David Fontaine wrote in message <38C1F08E.706E209D@faricy.net>...
> > >What's this one?
> >
> > 42 in base  2*sqrt(-1)
>
> Huh?  42 is a real number, while i is an imaginary value.  Both of which
> are orthognal.  You can't express a real number using an imaginary base.
>
> >
> > Mark

wouldn't 100 in base 2*sqrt(-1) = -4 in base 10?

and 10000 in base 2*sqrt(-1) = 16 in base 10?


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