You can also tell them it is 481,170,188,163, which is 100110 converted from base217.

It would make more sense to convert 100110 from base 2 into base217. Which would in fact work out to be: €

Quite the curious coincidence.

Damn, I was hoping you were telling true. That would have been cool. Anybody around here want to be &?

Granted, but I would think 38 in base217 would be å - lower case 'z' + 12 more places up the ascii chart.

Except you'd start with 0-9, not a, so it would be |

Except that ASCII is 7-bit so couldn't accommodate base217. So I'm switching to either 8-bit (such as ISO 8859-1) or larger (unicode). In both of those, 38 is & (since we have to change character coding I see no reason to skip the first 47 positions as we do with ASCII for hexadecimal notation).

Have we killed Kevy's joke yet?

Humm, good point. 0-9+a-z are not in order on the chart, so the only solution is to make up your own damn list for base217.

€ is in fact the correct answer.

Thanks for proving my case.

Me today:

Cocks head off to the side, looks dumb, feels dumb. Too much like math.

I just sent a text to Bill asking him to have a cocktail (a strong cocktail) waiting for me when I get home. I let him know that his life may depend on it.