What is the sum of digits of 123,789,456 in base 5? How would you do that? Thanks for help.
Start as follows:
1) 123,789,456/5=24,757,891.2. Multiply the decimal 0.2 x 5=1
2) 24,757,891/5=4,951,578.2. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,=1
3) 4,951,578/5 =990,315.6 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,0.6 x 5=3
Continue the process to the end and you will get:
223142230311(base 5), then you add them all up and you get=24, which is your answer.