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Base Numbers Problems

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Overview

To understand the notion of base numbers , we look at our own number system. We use the decimal, or base-10, number system. To help explain what this means, consider the number 2746. This number can be rewritten as

2746_{10}=2\\cdot10^3+7\\cdot10^2+4\\cdot10^1+6\\cdot10^0.

Note that each number in 2746 is actually just a placeholder which shows how many o