Talk:Conway's base 13 function

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13

Is the exact number 13 important? Or could this have been done with 14, 17, 23? Crasshopper (talk) 16:10, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The only importance of base 13 is that this particular encoding of real numbers uses 13 symbols. If you used an encoding with two symbols then it would be a base 2 function. David Radcliffe (talk) 04:39, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reference

Needs a better reference (94.212.42.237 (talk) 19:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)).[reply]

Digits

It is more conventional, and would be less confusing, to use the digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.162.130.215 (talk) 15:07, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Error correction

"Indeed, $f$ takes on the value of every real number on any closed interval $[a,b]$ where $b>a$ ." This is false. For example, if $ $=.++$ (base 13) and $b=+++$ , then $f$ is constantly 0 on $[a,b]$ .

I edited the page accordingly, but am still not sure if the article %100 correct.

Quinn (talk) 03:34, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]