Subj : Re: Name for base-30 numbering system?
To   : comp.programming,sci.math
From : Tim Rentsch
Date : Thu Jul 21 2005 01:28 am

Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:

> I am dealing with a software file format that represents
> floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
> for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
> "tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.
> 
> Suggestions?

A couple of Google searches yielded "trigesimal" as a standard
name for base 30.

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