Task: Negative base numbers
C: #include <stdio.h>

const char DIGITS[] = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
const int DIGITS_LEN = 64;

void encodeNegativeBase(long n, long base, char *out) {
    char *ptr = out;

    if (base > -1 || base < -62) {
        
        out = "";
        return;
    }
    if (n == 0) {
        
        out = "0";
        return;
    }

    
    while (n != 0) {
        long rem = n % base;
        n = n / base;
        if (rem < 0) {
            n++;
            rem = rem - base;
        }
        *ptr = DIGITS[rem];
        ptr++;
    }
    *ptr = 0;

    
    ptr--;
    while (out < ptr) {
        char t = *out;
        *out = *ptr;
        *ptr = t;
        out++;
        ptr--;
    }
    return;
}

long decodeNegativeBase(const char* ns, long base) {
    long value, bb;
    int i;
    const char *ptr;

    if (base < -62 || base > -1) {
        
        return 0;
    }
    if (ns[0] == 0 || (ns[0] == '0' && ns[1] == 0)) {
        
        return 0;
    }

    
    ptr = ns;
    while (*ptr != 0) {
        ptr++;
    }

    
    value = 0;
    bb = 1;
    ptr--;
    while (ptr >= ns) {
        for (i = 0; i < DIGITS_LEN; i++) {
            if (*ptr == DIGITS[i]) {
                value = value + i * bb;
                bb = bb * base;
                break;
            }
        }
        ptr--;
    }

    return value;
}

void driver(long n, long b) {
    char buf[64];
    long value;

    encodeNegativeBase(n, b, buf);
    printf("%12d encoded in base %3d = %12s\n", n, b, buf);

    value = decodeNegativeBase(buf, b);
    printf("%12s decoded in base %3d = %12d\n", buf, b, value);

    printf("\n");
}

int main() {
    driver(10, -2);
    driver(146, -3);
    driver(15, -10);
    driver(12, -62);

    return 0;
}

C#: using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace NegativeBaseNumbers {
    class Program {
        const string DIGITS = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

        static string EncodeNegativeBase(long n, int b) {
            if (b < -62 || b > -1) {
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("b");
            }
            if (n == 0) {
                return "0";
            }
            StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
            long nn = n;
            while (nn != 0) {
                int rem = (int)(nn % b);
                nn /= b;
                if (rem < 0) {
                    nn++;
                    rem -= b;
                }
                output.Append(DIGITS[rem]);
            }
            return new string(output.ToString().Reverse().ToArray());
        }

        static long DecodeNegativeBase(string ns, int b) {
            if (b < -62 || b > -1) {
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("b");
            }
            if (ns == "0") {
                return 0;
            }
            long total = 0;
            long bb = 1;
            for (int i = ns.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                char c = ns[i];
                total += DIGITS.IndexOf(c) * bb;
                bb *= b;
            }
            return total;
        }

        static void Main(string[] args) {
            List<Tuple<long, int>> nbl = new List<Tuple<long, int>>() {
                new Tuple<long, int>(10,-2),
                new Tuple<long, int>(146,-3),
                new Tuple<long, int>(15,-10),
                new Tuple<long, int>(-34025238427,-62),
            };
            foreach (var p in nbl) {
                string ns = EncodeNegativeBase(p.Item1, p.Item2);
                Console.WriteLine("{0,12} encoded in base {1,-3} = {2}", p.Item1, p.Item2, ns);
                long n = DecodeNegativeBase(ns, p.Item2);
                Console.WriteLine("{0,12} decoded in base {1,-3} = {2}", ns, p.Item2, n);
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
        }
    }
}