There are a set of common
notations for the use of various
radices. In
computing fields, numbers in
hexadecimal or preceded by 0x; numbers in
binary are preceded by 0b, and
octal numbers simply have a leading 0.
Mathematicians, on the other hand, prefer a more scalable notation system. Generally, numbers have a following subscript indicating a non-decimal base (e.g., 8729), although more interesting systems, such as balanced ternary, can cause problems even here.