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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Calculating in other bases than 10
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:19:29 +0100
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On 18.02.2025 14:13, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2025-02-18, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> And strange got this same error message for
>>
>>   ibase=14
>>   Runtime warning (func=(main), adr=6): ibase too large, set to 16
> 
> Did you already set ibase before and that "14" is no longer decimal
> 14?

LOL - indeed. Thanks! - It didn't occur to me that setting the base
for calculations will also affect the base for setting parameters.
(Apart from the misleading error message it smells not like a good
design but that explains it.)

Janis