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Balanced base 27

Balanced bace-27 (BB27) is used in vulpithecine computing in a similar manner to hexadecimal. Yinrih computers are based on Balanced Ternary instead of binary, where each digit can represent -1 (written T), 0, or 1. Balanced base-27 uses 27 digits which can represent the decimal range -13 to +13. The Yinrih Internetworking Protocol (YIP) uses BB27 to represent YIP addresses.

The table below is a human-friendly version of what yinrih actually use. Yinrih numerals are written with the highest-order digit to the right, since yinrih write right to left.

For everyday use, yinrih use either base-12 or base-24.

Balanced TernaryDecimalBalanced Base 27
TTT -13 q
TT0 -12 p
TT1 -11 n
T0T -10 m
T00 -9 l
T01 -8 k
T1T -7 j
T10 -6 h
T11 -5 g
0TT -4 f
0T0 -3 d
0T1 -2 c
00T -1 b
000 0 0
001 1 B
01T 2 C
010 3 D
011 4 F
1TT 5 G
1T0 6 H
1T1 7 J
10T 8 K
100 9 L
101 10 M
11T 11 N
110 12 P
111 13 Q
lore/balanced_base_27.txt · Last modified: by lurker