http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/ Learn Right, Not Rote. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-347 caesar Thu, 26 May 2011 15:10:19 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-347 like me? like me?

]]> http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-346 caesar Thu, 26 May 2011 15:09:40 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-346 @Mikel, can your thing be "better explained" for simpletons? @Mikel, can your thing be “better explained” for simpletons?

]]> http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-345 caesar Thu, 26 May 2011 15:08:40 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-345 @Judy, "20" and "100" are symbols. You are thinking in terms of their decimal values, that's why the skip seems large. In Binary, we have 0, 1, 10, 11, 100. Now see the skip between 11 and 100, its even bigger than ternary. To ease the confusion, their complete representation is (20)base3 and (100)base3. This is different from (20)base10 and (100)base10. @Judy, “20″ and “100″ are symbols. You are thinking in terms of their decimal values, that’s why the skip seems large. In Binary, we have 0, 1, 10, 11, 100. Now see the skip between 11 and 100, its even bigger than ternary. To ease the confusion, their complete representation is (20)base3 and (100)base3. This is different from (20)base10 and (100)base10.

]]> http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-344 judy Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:41:23 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/numbers-and-bases/#comment-344 Um, in ternary notation, I heard that "9" is written as "100" but "6" is written as "20". Why did that big jump in numbers occur? Um, in ternary notation, I heard that “9″ is written as “100″ but “6″ is written as “20″. Why did that big jump in numbers occur?

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