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by westurner 911 days ago
Radix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix

- "Golden ratio base is a non-integer positional numeral system" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969716

Number systems > Classification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number#Classification ; N natural numbers, Z[±] integers, Q rational/s, R Reals, C complex numbers (with complex conjugate exponents), Infinity or Infinities, ; C ⊆ R ⊆ Q ⊆ Z ⊆ N

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  i^4x ~= e^iπx
Also, perhaps this is a better representation for a continuum of reals:

   e^(x*yi*zπ)
But then there's no zero; only quantities approaching zero.

   e^(x*yi*zπ) * e^(a*bi*cπ)
But then there are still no negative numbers, so:

   sign * e^(x*yi*zπ) * e^(a*bi*cπ)
Where `sign` is in {-1,0,1}, or maybe just this would be the ultimate radix:

   sign * e^(x*yi*zπ)
But then represent infinity, or infinity_expr1 (because e.g. 1/x != 2/x except at x=0)