The enterprise was abandoned. Farther to the left, a portion of the 6th Corps carried the first line of the Confederate entrenchments, and captured 900 prisoners and several guns. Then the first day's real battle at Spotsylvania Courthouse was ended.
Base (mathematics) In mathematics, a base or radix is the number of different digits or combination of digits and letters that a system of counting uses to represent numbers. For example, the most common base used today is the decimal system. Because dec means 10, it uses the 10 digits from 0 to 9.
In mathematical numeral systems, the radix or base is the number of unique digits, including zero, that a positional numeral system uses to represent numbers. For example, for the decimal system the radix is ten, because it uses the ten digits from 0 through 9. In any numeral system, the base will always be written as 10. For example, 10 represents the number ten in the decimal system; 10 represents the number two in a base two system.