How would you count a base $> 36$ system?

Question

When I am counting in a base greater than ten, I can use the letters of the alphabet. What do I use when I run out of those?

What comes after $z$?:

$0, 1, 2, 3,\ldots, 9, a, b, c, d,\ldots, x, y, z$ (?)

And how would I find it?

Answer 1

You can choose your favorite letter and put an index, e.g. for base $n\in \mathbb{N}$ $$a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots, a_n.$$

Answer 2

We have tons of symbols available, Take any number of languages which have pairways disjoint letters. Index each of those languages and use the pre-ezisting indexes inside the language and you shall have a lot of letters, just by using the symbols for base $10$ numbers ,Japanese Hiragana, katakana, Arab, Hebrew and Spanish we get $179$ symbols.

Answer 3

The Babylonians were able to do math in base $60$. Each digit consisted of $N$ wedge marks in one direction and $M$ in the other direction, and the value of the digit was $10N + M$. They lacked a zero, but that is not hard to provide.

You could also say that time of day is base $60$, so $\mbox{1:23:45} = 1 \cdot 60^2 + 23 \cdot 60 + 45.$ The basic idea of a place-value system is that you can tell what digit is in each place somehow (in this case, by taking the symbols $0$ through $9$ in pairs, and some people insert the symbol ":" beteween pairs as a visual aid). Each digit does not need to be drawn as a single connected region of black paint.

Answer 4

You can also encode each digit of high-base number system by fixed-width representation of a number in low-base number system. For example, each digit of a number in base $\leq 256$ can be encoded by a pair of hexadecimal digits.

Answer 5

Take for example base $64$, widely used for encoding binary data.

Once it gets to Z (it starts uppercase) it goes with lowercase letters: WXYZabcd. The careful observer will note it's still missing two letters, because $10 + 2 \cdot 26 = 62.$

Those two are usually one of /, + and -, but it's more or less implementation dependent.

A base $64$ number looks like this cGxlYXN1cmUu and you have probably seen it in a URL before.

Answer 6

+, -, /, { ,], ä, ö, ü, ß, ă, î, ț, ﺞ, 덖, 哶, ...

There are millions of characters you could use. There are standards mostly used for base $64$ or base $32$ but I'd say that it's mostly up to you what you choose.

Answer 7

This example shows the first 1,600 values from base 40 represented in a particular fashion:

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[39, 31]
[39, 32]
[39, 33]
[39, 34]
[39, 35]
[39, 36]
[39, 37]
[39, 38]
[39, 39]
[1, 0, 0]

You can invent any way you want to represent a number.

Answer 8

I don't mean to be silly, but why not use base 6? If you want join the gitis in groups of two bits

1234123051 can be understood as a 5-digit number: 12 34 12 30 51

In the decimal system multiplying by ten $T: x\mapsto 10x$ plays a very special role.

If we want to learn about a number $\alpha$ we could take the integer part (e.g. $\lfloor 3.5\rfloor = 3$), then multiply by 10, take the integer part again. Doing this over and over would give our decimal system.

• $10^0\pi \mapsto 3$
• $10^1\pi \mapsto 1$
• $10^2\pi \mapsto 4$
• ...

In your case, using 36 instead of 10. Or just use two base-6 digits. This is also related to channel coding from information theory.