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pythonrangemultiplicationradix

Base multiplier

Hello I'm having some trouble with my code to multiply a number to any base from 2 to 9. I have looked online but nothing has the answer I'm looking for. The code I have right now is:

def conver(n,b):
for i in range (b):
    x = b**i

What I'm wondering is how do I get b to get multiplied by all the values of i, also I know that I'm supposed to incorporate these pieces of code too, but I am not sure how:

n//b + n%b
Solution

  • Here's a version that will work to base 36:

    def conver(n,b):
  assert 1 < b <= 36,'Invalid base. Must be between 2 and 36'
  if n == 0: return '0'
  ans = ''
  while n > 0:
    ans = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'[n%b] + ans
    n //= b
  return ans

NUMBER = 65535
for b in range(2,37):
  print(NUMBER,'in base',b,'is',conver(NUMBER,b))