Timeline for All Your Base (Numbering System Conversions)
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| Nov 6, 2015 at 15:21 | history | edited | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2015 at 14:49 | history | edited | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2015 at 14:45 | vote | accept | NeedAName | ||
| Oct 24, 2015 at 10:39 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Note to anyone trying. If you solve this using your own efforts then prepare to become famous! | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 10:33 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | 2140324650240744961264423072839333563008614715144755017797754920881418023447 1401366433455190958046796109928518724709145876873962619215573630474547705208 0511905649310668769159001975940569345745223058932597669747168173806936489469 9871578494975937497937 | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 10:33 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | @GentlePurpleRain - The real point I was trying to make is that even if you could somehow find a way to use this system for everyday arithmetic, cryptography would still not be broken. This is because cryptography typically uses very large semi-primes. These numbers are far bigger than the ones we use for counting--they are far bigger than the number of atoms in the known universe. Simply to write one in this number system would require you to be able break cryptography! The next comment shows a 'small' one of these numbers written in base 10. Can you convert it to this number system? | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 4:27 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain | @chasly Absolutely. I'm not saying it would be practical or feasible; it was just an interesting observation. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 4:26 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain | @Octopus I meant if everyone used it all the time. Just using it momentarily obviously does nothing. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | The problem is with the 'if'. Try counting in that system. Try sorting lists of numbers. Simple addition would be impossible. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 21:50 | comment | added | Octopus | can you prove that? it seems to me you're saying that if I use this number system for just a moment I can break cryptography. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 21:19 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain | If we used this number system all the time, it would totally destroy modern cryptography, since it's based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. If the number is represented as the product of its fractions, factorization becomes trivial, and the cryptography is easily broken. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 20:39 | history | answered | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |