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.
Definition of Base Numbers. The Base Number is the basis of each place value column in a number system. 1  In a place value system, each column contains digits representing successive powers of the base number.  In a decimal system, the base number is 10.