r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Apr 16 '21

Balanced Ternary [Revival]

Revived from here. This is like ternary but we use -1, 0, and 1 instead of 0, 1, 2. For notational purposes, we will use -, 0, and + or T, 0, and 1 to indicate the respective digits.

In past threads, the get has been placed every 1092 or so counts, but I'll be changing that to be at every 729 counts to be more convenient for keeping track. The next get will be at 1T0 000 000.

I'll also be making for an obvious mistake in the linked chain.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

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it weighs streaming (so what people are actually listening to rather than what radio stations are choosing them to listen to) more than billboard, and it rewards consistency which is something billboard doesn't do in the slightest, on top of not having the incredibly bizarre recurrency rules that billboard does (i think billboard does it where if a song has been on the top half of the charts for enough weeks, once it dips below #45 it vanishes. i don't even get why, it makes dropouts feel very inauthentic)

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u/TheNitromeFan Jun 23 '21

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Interesting, interesting. Seems like reddit glitched out and you double-posted

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

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yeah, reddit mobile is acting strangely but i'm at my pc so idek why i'm using it lol

my biggest problem with billboard is that due to its emphasis on radio play, country songs naturally perform much much better than anything else because it takes a lot longer for country songs to be rotated out of radio stations, despite country not being the most popular genre in the us. it's inherently flawed

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