[Tutor] built in functions int(),long()

[Bob Gailer]

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At 11:37 AM 6/19/2003 -0700, Jeff Shannon wrote:
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 > What has you confused is that Python, when asked to show you an integer, 
will automatically convert that integer into base 10 for
 > display. However, that's a feature of the display, not of the integer 
itself -- it just so happens that for humans, base 10 is easiest to
 > read, so Python accommodates us (unless we specifically request 
otherwise, through the use of hex() or similar functions).  Of
 > course, internally the computer will store all integers in binary format 
(base 2), because that's the way that computers are wired.

"base 10" is ambiguous. We usually interpret that to mean the decimal 
system, but an 8 fingered alien who counts in octal would say "base 10" and 
it would mean octal.

Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625

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