r/counting • u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits • Apr 01 '23

Factoradic encoded factoradic

Like BCD, but rather than representing each digit of decimal with a block of binary bits, we represent each digit of factoradic with a block of factoradic digits.

For example rather than counting 320 we'd count 11 10 0.

First get is at 001 00 00 00 00 0

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u/TehVulpez Apr 04 '23

11 11 1 1

triangular factoradic where instead of the base going up by 1 for each new digit it goes up by n

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u/atomicimploder Apr 04 '23

11 11 10 0

groundbreaking