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Comment by ccvannorman | Hacker News Reader

With alternating pages printed "What is 6 x 7"

No! Remember the book:

  "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

And because everything is base 10, 6 times 9 is 42. In base "A", it's 54, but we're using base 10, not base "A"

All bases are base 10