{"id":48962,"date":"2025-03-16T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48962"},"modified":"2025-03-16T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:05:28","slug":"excel-writing-a-number-in-a-different-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-writing-a-number-in-a-different-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel: writing a number in a different base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions its base() function.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine needing to write a number in a different base; for example, needing to write 1005 in base 7.<\/p>\n<p>\nExcel has a function for that: =base(1005, 7). Apparently the answer is 2634: 1005=2*7^3 + 6*7^2 + 3*7 + 4.\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions its base() function. Let&#8217;s imagine needing to write a number in a different base; for example, needing to write 1005 in base 7. Excel has a function for that: =base(1005, 7). Apparently the answer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-writing-a-number-in-a-different-base\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excel: writing a number in a different base<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583],"tags":[3570],"class_list":["post-48962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","tag-numbers-in-different-bases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48963,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962\/revisions\/48963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}