Tag for questions about using various number bases in Mathematica. This includes, but is not restricted to base notation, base conversion and formatting issues.

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Numbers in alternate bases transcend the evaluator?

It looks to me like a number in a base other than base 10 gets evaluated before the evaluator ever gets a chance to be tweaked. For example, FullForm[16^^abcdef] ...
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How to convert from base 2 to base n?

I'm trying to use baseform to convert numbers in base 10 to base n, how can I make the convertion between, say base 2 to base n? Baseform seems to always think that the base in expr ...
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“A number in base b” and pure functions: why doesn't b^^# & work?

Why do the following not work (in Mathematica 7)? 2^^ # & /@ {1000, 1101} and 2^^ # & @ 1101 This does work: ...
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How do I remove the subscript after calling BaseForm[]?

Say I want to convert some number $N$ to base $k$. Here, I might use the command BaseForm[N,k], e.g.,BaseForm[10,...