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Balanced Base 3

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 [...]