a balanced ternary slide rule!
i can't imagine what use it would be, unless you find yourself needing to do multiplication in balanced ternary.
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phil1882
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 12:05 PM
so here's my idea of "fun".
a balanced ternary slide rule!
i can't imagine what use it would be, unless you find yourself needing to do multiplication in balanced ternary.
a balanced ternary slide rule!
i can't imagine what use it would be, unless you find yourself needing to do multiplication in balanced ternary.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 02:11 AM
you're not crazy; merely awesome.
Mafiosos and mafiosas of the world, unite! And then kill each other in a particularly tricky move that everyone suspects but never anticipates.
stand back. I'm going to apply logic.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 07:56 AM
you're not crazy; merely awesome.
Yup, you are not trying hard enough
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TheChad08
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 11:43 PM
Yeah, I have no clue what that is, so I'm voting for the crazy side.
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phil1882
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 01:59 AM
do a Google search for slide rule. its a mechanism of calculating division and multiplication quickly (reduces it to addition subtraction.)
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 04:00 AM
A balanced binary slide rule sounds much more useful despite being just as useless.
If you can think of a use for it, there is probably a simpler solution staring you in the face.
It still provides the illusion that you are a practical geek rather than an unrealistic one
So where did you get the fractional log values for base 3?
If you can think of a use for it, there is probably a simpler solution staring you in the face.
It still provides the illusion that you are a practical geek rather than an unrealistic one
So where did you get the fractional log values for base 3?
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 12:50 PM
quite simply log base 10 of 7 / log base 10 of 3 = log base 3 of 7.
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