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

[cino hilliard]

>From: Bob Gailer <bgailer@alum.rpi.edu>
>To: "Jeff Shannon" <jeff@ccvcorp.com>, tutor@python.org
>CC: cino hilliard <hillcino368@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] built in functions int(),long()
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:47:44 -0600
>
>At 11:37 AM 6/19/2003 -0700, Jeff Shannon wrote:
>[snip]
> > 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.
Why would he say that if he was a digital arachnoid? Sure he would know base 
10 because he
was using my convert.base program. Base 2 of course is the nature of the 
universe. It is on or
it is off. At one point it turned on. I don not like to say time because in 
reality there is no time-
just the obversation of change which we conveniently "label" time. Pepole 
don age they just change.
This program is out in the universe im many places. I just changed a few 
things an made it visible
here.
>
>Bob Gailer
>bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
>303 442 2625
>
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