Well what the heck do you mean by notational base? It just means the prefix we give for hexadecimal and octal numbers. So in C++ there is an io manipulator called ‘showbase’ which shows the base and ‘noshowbase’ which hides the base from display.
An e.g. from MSDN…
[sourcecode language=’cpp’]#include
int main( )
{
using namespace std;
int j = 100;
cout << showbase << j << endl; // dec is default cout << hex << j << showbase << endl; cout << oct << j << showbase << endl; cout << dec << j << noshowbase << endl; cout << hex << j << noshowbase << endl; cout << oct << j << noshowbase << endl; } //Output 100 0x64 0144 100 64 144[/sourcecode]
