In a strange alien world, they count in base 6. What is the base 10 equivalent of the base 6 number 245?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Convert each digit from base 6 to base 10 using positional values.
Answer
89
Explanation
The conversion is: 2*(6^2) + 4*(6^1) + 5*(6^0) = 72 + 24 + 5 = 89.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 89.
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