Talk:Base Translator/@comment-24386245-20150519145457/@comment-26216362-20150529212058

Almost. You forgot your zeros. Base 9 looks like:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10...

You use 9 different digits (0-8) to represent different numbers. Then, to translate these Base 9 numbers into base 10, you do some math. Know that the far-right digit (such as in 123, 3 is the far-right digit) is in the ones (1s) place (9^0). Each time you go left one column, you increase the power, so the next digit to the left (which I'll call the 2nd column) is actually the nines (9s) place (9^1). The 3rd column would be the 81s place (9^2).

If, for instance, you had the number 21 in base 9, this can be translated easily to base 10 like so:

21 has a 1 in the 1s place and a 2 in the nines place.

1 * 9^0 = 1*1 = 1

2 * 9^1 = 2*9 = 18

When you add these two results, you get 19 in base 10. In other words 21 in base 9 is 19 in base 10 (a point a tried to make on a forum once, but was rebuted by less-informed individuals).