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Bases – What are they? (Part 4) How to write base notation

How do you symbolize different bases? Is there a way that mathematicians write “base 2″ for example, without having to write out the words?

There are several ways that bases can be symbolized. The two most common are simply to subscript the number of the base to the right and down of the number, like [...]