What is the sum of digits of 123,789,456 in base 5? How would you do that? Thanks for help.
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.
