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 Only had to write 'dec2base' as the reverse is provided by the in-built function 'tonumber'
 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">function dec2base (base, n)
-    local result, digit = ""
+    local result = ""
-    while n > 0 do
+    repeat
-        digit = n % base
+        local digit = n % base
-        if digit > 9 then digit = string.char(digit + 87) end
+        if digit > 9 then
-        n = math.floor(n / base)
+            digit = string.char(digit + 87)
+        end
         result = digit .. result
+        n = n // base
-    end
+    until n == 0
     return result
 end