Problem 721. Convert from Base 10 to base 5

Created by Reza Ahmadzadeh

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Peter Wittenberg on 12 Jan 2013

It's a dirty way to handle this to put base 5 numbers into the form of a base 10 number. You really should be using a string representation for the number in another base, just as dec2base does.

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bainhome on 24 Aug 2014

never thought about dec2base can do "5" base.learn a new trick.

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