Sys--Talk

The Enneagram is a figure that has been appropriated to model all sorts of things – a personality model, a body type model, and as a form for nine-facet systems within the larger topic of Systematics.

You can find some of what I wrote about a decade ago on N-Grams at www.solbakkn.com/math/n-grams.htm . Click on the links for tables to see what N-Grams look like. In my last post I described them as “a collection of diagrams formed using the same mathematical / diagrammatic rules / conventions as the Enneagram, but [...]

Late last century I wrote about three mathematical ideas that hold particular interest for me. (See yesterday’s Math posting for a web link.) All have to do with the basics of number and structure. I went into some detail about ideas, * the “balanced base 3″ about which I wrote yesterday, * and “N-Grams”, a [...]

The usual way mathematicians discuss number bases 2 and larger (call base “b”) has them with digits that range in value from zero to b-1.  Base ten has values 0 to 9; base two has values 0 to 1.  Some years ago I hit on the idea that for base 3, using digits with values [...]