Development. Gradius V was officially announced on January 16, 2003, and is a result of the combined efforts of the now defunct Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and Treasure, a development studio founded by former employees of Konami.
How a Number System Works. Number systems are used to describe the quantity of something or represent certain information. Because of this, I can say that the word calculator contains ten letters. Our number system, the decimal system, uses ten symbols. Therefore, decimal is said to be Base Ten. By describing systems with bases, we can gain an understanding of how that particular system works.
The base of a number system is the number representing the value of each place in a representation. For example, base ten tells us that each digit in a number is some value of 10. In base ten, the number 1,234 represents four different values of 10: (1  10 3) + (2  10 2) + (3  10 1) + (4  10 0).