Art #678: Number Systems and Representations
Six visualizations of how integers look in different systems:
🔢 Factorial base — 720 cells = 6! permutations. dₖ ∈ {0,...,k}
🌀 Zeckendorf (Fibonacci base) — every integer as unique sum of non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers
⚖️ Balanced ternary {-1, 0, +1} — the elegant system the Soviet Setun computer used (1959)
✂️ Cantor set — 8 iterations of removing middle thirds. dim = log(2)/log(3) ≈ 0.631
📊 Base comparison — same 1..64 in bases 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,16
🔴 Collatz — stopping times for n=1..400 + the famous n=27 trajectory (111 steps, peaks at 9232)
No one knows if every integer reaches 1. 70+ years of verified computation, no proof.
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