Using the digits '-', '0', and '+' for -1, 0, and +1, respectively.
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Count in Balanced Ternary
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Re: Count in Balanced Ternary
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(Easy enough, so far. Though I first wrote "1". Anyway. I probably first saw Balanced Ternary, not named as such, on a Johnny Ball programme. Weights distributed by successive powers of three (one per size) that could be placed on either side of a balance, or not at all, to enumerate an unknown mass. Placing on the unknown's side made it the negative value in the notation. Never explained as such, but a stealth education, almost, for those that did more than go "cool!" and move on!)
(Easy enough, so far. Though I first wrote "1". Anyway. I probably first saw Balanced Ternary, not named as such, on a Johnny Ball programme. Weights distributed by successive powers of three (one per size) that could be placed on either side of a balance, or not at all, to enumerate an unknown mass. Placing on the unknown's side made it the negative value in the notation. Never explained as such, but a stealth education, almost, for those that did more than go "cool!" and move on!)
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Re: Count in Balanced Ternary
(The font makes "--" look a bit "-"ish. Thought it was wrong, for a moment.)
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Re: Count in Balanced Ternary
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(hat's true. If you have a suggestion for a better character then we can switch it going forwards.
(hat's true. If you have a suggestion for a better character then we can switch it going forwards.
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Re: Count in Balanced Ternary
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(Nothing obvious comes to mind. There's a forward/backward oblique. Or ¦. Or switch to L as a sorta-flip to 1(mnemonically "Less"?). Or !01 (typos ahoy!). Or <0>. Or101. But, other than those, and others, all of which have awkwardnesses of their own, nothing comes to mind...)
(Nothing obvious comes to mind. There's a forward/backward oblique. Or ¦. Or switch to L as a sorta-flip to 1(mnemonically "Less"?). Or !01 (typos ahoy!). Or <0>. Or
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Re: Count in Balanced Ternary
phillip1882 wrote:+++
i made font size large for better readability.
Let's then see if +--- looks Ok, as the first major test...
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mittfh wrote:I wish this post was very quotable...
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mittfh wrote:I wish this post was very quotable...
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mittfh wrote:I wish this post was very quotable...
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Re: Count in Balanced Ternary
(edited) Hang on, you missed ++0-, above.
This should be ++00
Edit2: handy hint to check, look at the (currently) "37 posts - Page 1 of 1" below. This means the next number is ++0+ (+27+9+(0x3)+1 for a matching 37. Except this time I just rolled yours up a digit, until I realised.)
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