Hi everyone,

Quick question - how many mathematical bases are there in existense? Someone posted a question on another board asking:

"If we work on the theory that infinity is a quantifiable thing and can be written down as a number, then *** is the last number before infinity?"

Now he claimed the number in question is 9, but of course that's only going to work under base-10 math. Given base-16, the answer (on the technicality) would be F.

So I wondered, how many bases are there? Total number of bases = total number of possible answers to the question...