ok so i actually have found like two things in math in my life

like if you sum or take the differences of powers of two that are more than one digit until you have one digit left, repeatedly, it prints this 487 512 pattern over and over. Like 512 is a power of 2. Pretty amazing. That's the last thing

But first I figured out after looking at some weird thing in another base, like, I don't know what it was but I tried all different things to find some patterns I thought I saw or something, and it kept breaking at different points, then I finally figured that if you make each digit of a number a different base, like use very large bases towards the most significant digit then load each position with some large value, you can't use like alphanumeric symbols then you just say the value of each digit in decimal, then like if the bases are multiples of 10 it prints the values you load it with, I used powers of 2, printed on a string of zeroes that diminishes in length

Well. That kind of seems obvious but that most recent thing I described first is most interesting to me right now. Try both. Here the critterdrug page has series.py where you can try the summing thing with powers of two just say reiterhi, ok, and there are functions in there for transferring numbers between different bases that you could use to try the second thing I described if you want, like, I might just put up the script that takes a list of bases and a list of values and turns that number into a large decimal one, at some point, but at least I've described that here now. In case I die soon. Alright

flamoot

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