All Your Base

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Convert a number, represented as a sequence of digits in one base, to any other base.

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Source: Exercism awk/all-your-base

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@include "assert"
{
    assert(ibase > 1, "ibase")
    assert(obase > 1, "obase")
    for (i=1; i<=NF; ++i) {
        assert($i >= 0, "zero")
        assert($i < ibase, "ibase")
        v = v * ibase + $i
    }
    idx = 0