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Posted: **Mon May 18, 2009 5:53 am**

Now that WolframAlpha is available,
this chellange got very easy =)[/url]

Don't know what i mean?
click me[/url]

Posted: **Tue May 19, 2009 9:00 pm**

It was easy for UNIX users long before that.
Check bc and the obase command:
$ bc
obase=7; 8
11

WolframAlpha is an amazing site, but can probably not solve most of the harder math challenges.
E.g. "Biggest Fib" runs into an timeout. You don't need a calculator anymore, but still have to use your own brain

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:05 am**

Yea, I used the BC libraries in PHP. Code was about 5 lines.

Posted: **Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:37 pm**

I solved it by hand
just for fun
These things amuse me

Posted: **Sun Oct 17, 2010 1:48 am**

matter wrote:Yea, I used the BC libraries in PHP. Code was about 5 lines.

5 lines? Ruby: »28679718602997181072337614380936720482949.to_s 7«

Posted: **Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:03 am**

i know java is normaly realy gabby, but this was quit short:

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return new BigInteger("28679718602997181072337614380936720482949").toString(7);

But the real challenge is to code the convertion by yourself. I try it soon.

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 8:06 pm**

I used dc

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2011 10:47 am**

Mathematica:

IntegerString[28679718602997181072337614380936720482949, 7]

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:20 pm**

I wrote an own function in python (for fun)

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def base(number,base):
  newnumber=[]
  while number>0:
    newnumber.insert(0,number%base)
    number=number//base
  return newnumber

It returns a list of the digets.

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:32 am**

i solve this problem in java but i am wondering that how could I solve this in C ??
Is there any Header file which support integers with such large digits???

Posted: **Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:54 am**

There are "big integer" libraries which can be used with C. One of them is the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2013 9:58 pm**

Thanks Mathematica

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BaseForm [28679718602997181072337614380936720482949, 7]

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:15 pm**

I solved it in groovy in straight forward programing

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BigInteger number = 28679718602997181072337614380936720482949
def pow = 50
print "septal number: "
while(pow >= 0) {
    def digitValue = 7.power(pow)
    def currentDigit = 0
    while(number >= digitValue) {
        currentDigit++
        number -= digitValue
    }
    print currentDigit
    pow--
}

But after reading the solution of wolfamstart in this Forum I recognized, that groovy also provides a very quick solution:

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println 28679718602997181072337614380936720482949.toString(7)

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