Just as we do in "Denary" or "Base 10" we have the facility to perform the 4 basic operators of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Fortunately there are many facilities available on the Internet to check the answers that you might come up with, indeed many scientific calculators now also provide base calculation facility but it's still an interesting topic to do "longhand".


The next few sections will cover the basic functions but with varying bases.