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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 06:46:54 +0100
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On 18.02.2025 10:59, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> [...]
> 
> BTW, Kornshell operates with bases up to 64 and I wonder what symbols
> are used for that. Tests show that it depends on the base; for small
> bases letters in caps are handled like lowercase letters, for larger
> bases using caps matters, and for some bases we even get errors, e.g.
> 
> $ echo $((37#ff))
> 570
> $ echo $((37#FF))
> ksh: 37#FF: arithmetic syntax error
> 
> Looks like a bug to me.

....but it isn't! - As I've been pointed out base 37 just means that
0-9, a-z, and A are accepted as digits, which of course makes sense.

Janis