Task: Negative base numbers
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();
            }
        }
    }
}

VB: Const DIGITS = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
Dim Str(63) As String
Private Function mod2(a As Long, b As Integer) As Long
    mod2 = a - (a \ b) * b
End Function
Private Function swap(a As String, b As String)
    Dim t As String
    t = a
    a = b
    b = t
End Function
Private Function EncodeNegativeBase(ByVal n As Long, base As Integer) As String
    Dim ptr, idx As Long
    Dim rem_ As Long
    Dim result As String
    If base > -1 Or base < -62 Then
        EncodeNegativeBase = result
    Else
        If n = 0 Then
            EncodeNegativeBase = "0"
        Else
            ptr = 0
            Do While n <> 0
                rem_ = mod2(n, base)
                n = n \ base
                If rem_ < 0 Then
                    n = n + 1
                    rem_ = rem_ - base
                End If
                result = result & Mid(DIGITS, rem_ + 1, 1)
            Loop
        End If
    End If
    EncodeNegativeBase = StrReverse(result)
End Function
Private Function DecodeNegativeBase(ns As String, base As Integer) As Long
    Dim total As Long, bb As Long
    Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
    If base < -62 Or base > -1 Then DecodeNegativeBase = 0
    If Mid(ns, 1, 1) = 0 Or (Mid(ns, 1, 1) = "0" And Mid(ns, 2, 1) = 0) Then DecodeNegativeBase = 0
    i = Len(ns)
    total = 0
    bb = 1
    Do While i >= 1
        j = InStr(1, DIGITS, Mid(ns, i, 1), vbTextCompare) - 1
        total = total + j * bb
        bb = bb * base
        i = i - 1
    Loop
    DecodeNegativeBase = total
End Function
Private Sub Driver(n As Long, b As Integer)
    Dim ns As String
    Dim p As Long
    ns = EncodeNegativeBase(n, b)
    Debug.Print CStr(n); " encoded in base "; b; " = "; ns
    p = DecodeNegativeBase(ns, b)
    Debug.Print ns; " decoded in base "; b; " = "; p
    Debug.Print
End Sub
Public Sub main()
    Driver 10, -2
    Driver 146, -3
    Driver 15, -10
    Driver 118492, -62
End Sub