Date: Feb 1, 2013 1:12 AM
Author: William Elliot
Subject: Re: 1/3 partitioned expansion in different bases.

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, JT wrote:

> How is fraction 1/3 expressed in base 3, 

0.1

> But has it really in base 3???
> 
What is that asking?

> And this is where number zero gets interesting, because when you use
> zero number 3 is expressed 10 in base 3 right?

Correct
 
> But in a number system without 0 it should *undoubtly* be expressed a
> single 1. And number 6 be 11 number 9 be 12 do you people agree?
> 
No.