{"id":2158,"date":"2007-05-14T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2007-05-14T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T05:16:00","slug":"you-cant-do-that-on-television-or-anywhere-for-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/you-cant-do-that-on-television-or-anywhere-for-that-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t do that on television.. or anywhere for that matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… yes. I’m a software developer. This means that I can count to 16 very easily. So easily that I use letters to fill the space until I hit 10 (referring to 16, without abandon or care)<\/p>\n

I’ve tired of base 16. I decided to play with something a little more obscure.<\/p>\n

I played with base 7.4<\/p>\n

Where is in decimal you have : 1000s, 100s, 10s, 1s, .1, .10, .100, etc…<\/p>\n

In base 7.4 you have:
\n7.4^3, 7.4^2, 7.4^1, 7.4^0, 7.4^-1, 7.4^-2, 7.4^-3<\/p>\n

So at first all worked out.
\n10(10) = 12.431644201(7.4)
\n9(10) = 11.431644201(7.4)
\n8(10) = 10.431644201(7.4)<\/p>\n

Then I made the mistake of solving for
\n7.4(10) = 10(7.4)
\nI came up with 7.270551032(7.4)<\/p>\n

that’s right. In Base 7.4:
\n10(7.4) == 7.270551032(7.4)<\/p>\n

Oops.<\/p>\n

I love moments when you prove different numbers are the same.<\/p>\n

I looked at shimmeringjemmy<\/a> at this point and said, “I think I broke Math”<\/p>\n

So… my new form of using rational non-integers as numeration bases shall from this day forward have a name.<\/p>\n

I call my system:<\/p>\n

“Crystal Math”<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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