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In article <By67JE.CCz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
 > >1000101110010 B 0010101010
 > 
 > This is the general idea.  However, something a little more flexible and
 > taking a little less time to type, transmit, etc., would be in order.
 > Typing 64 0's and 1's is too much of a chore, and also increases the
 > chance of error.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, natural notation like using E for exponent runs into 
 > problems.  A suggestion:  extend the present octal (I see problems
 > here for numbers less than 1; maybe they should start with 00) and
 > hex notation to allow an "integer point" to be inserted as well, and
 > use P for power of 2 by which the resulting fixed-point number is
 > to be multiplied.

You know what Herman.  There are languages that provide what you want!
Ada:  13#c.18644#e+12
meens c.18644 in base 13 notation multiplied by 13 to the power 12.
Fairly general I would think.
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