SOLUTION: Could -2 be used as a base to rewrite 32?64? Why or why not?

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Question 1091376: Could -2 be used as a base to rewrite 32?64? Why or why not?
Answer by ikleyn(52864)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Could -2 be used as a base to represent 32? 64? Why or why not?
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For  64  the answer is  "YES",  because   = 64.


For  32  the answer is  "NO",  because  such an integer  n  that  = 32  does not exist.   

    (And, as additional argument, only integer positive indexes are allowed to consider the expressions    with the negative base).


Notice  that your question was not mathematically precisely correct,
              so I edited it.



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