Date:  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:34 p.m.
   From:  Mark Jacobson <jacobson@math-cs.cns.uni.edu>
     To:  810-030-01@uni.edu
Subject:  Base 5 to base 10 conversions assignment...

Hi Visual Basic students,

    The assignment will be due on next Wednesday, which is July 24th.

    The key web page to look at and utilize as a resource and example,
which you also have as a handout, is:

                     http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/030/binary.html

    Your program will convert numbers from base 5 to base 10
            and vice versa, from base 10 (decimal) to base 5.

    You can add additional features to your program, such as a listbox
    with additional choices in it, such as 2, 8, and 16 to add the
    binary, octal and hexadecimal conversions.  However, that is not
    required.

    You should make the user interface look nice and you need not make
    your program user interface and your tools be the same as mine.

    As you can see in my handout, on one example, I wrote the results
    to a label for the base 5 number and for the base 10 number, but
    Printing the results to the form is very nice too, as the web page
    and handout also show.

    The key operators are \ for Integer division and Mod for Integer
    remainders.

    remainder = 19 mod 5
    quotient = 19 \ 5

    Print "Quotient with 19 as dividend and 5 as divisor was: " &
          quotient &
          vbCrLf &
          "                            and the remainder was: " &
          remainder

    ***** would output

    Quotient with 18 as dividend and 5 as divisor was: 3
                                and the remainder was: 4

    See you on Monday in the Wright 105 classroom.

    Mark