That's only meaningful for base-2.

Well, that's how computers work, don't they... since the whole business of this convoluted module is only yielding the string representation of a value $n to base $b via a charset @c, while all calculations are carried out on the number/integer slots of its objects - it doesn't really calculate in base $b (no such machine except $base == 2) - the only thing is to find a good stringified representation of the underlying numbers, whilst not limiting the native number range.

So I guess the best way to go here is outlawing '-' from the valid chars array and using that as a prefix for negative numbers. That would reduce the maxbase to 90, which I deem not to be a big loss. Would that be a good way to go?

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^4: Math::Base - arithmetics with baseX integers (OP updated) by shmem
in thread Math::Base - arithmetics with baseX integers (updated) by shmem

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