Base i-1: There Be Dragons
John Baez recently posted this picture (by Anton Sherwood) on his G+ stream: The story behind it is pretty cool, and it involves two of my favorite things: TAOCP and unusual number systems. Let’s...
Tagged: matlab
Alan Turing and How Zebras Get Their Stripes
Gordon Brown recently apologized for the way the British government treated Alan Turing in the 50’s. In general, I don’t think much of these “government apologies”, but in this case I think that it...
Equations of the Undead
At work, we love to see the work that our users are doing with our products. This paper has been a big favorite at the office recently. You can hear an interview with one...
Balanced Ternary Clock
Here’s a short clip of a balanced ternary clock I wrote using the MATLAB class I posted the other day. In this clock, the green dots represent 1, the red dots represent –1, and...
Balanced Ternary in MATLAB
I wanted to do something with balanced ternary the other day, so I wrote this MATLAB class. classdef bt % Class for managing numbers in balanced ternary. % properties (SetAccess=’private’) trits = ”; end...
