A base-5 number written as '243' equals what decimal number?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Convert each digit's place value from base-5 to decimal before summing.
Answer
A decimal number equal to seventy-three
Explanation
Calculating the base-5 places (2×25 + 4×5 + 3×1) results in seventy-three in decimal.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A decimal number equal to seventy-three.
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