tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8082954141980125536.post1473564042324796034..comments2008-04-11T22:00:07.830-04:00rschttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06357099531993534337noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8082954141980125536.post-33382936876471914342008-04-11T22:00:00.000-04:002008-04-11T22:00:00.000-04:002008-04-11T22:00:00.000-04:00Balanced ternary is great for parallel big-number multipliers because you don't need to propagate carry bits arbitrarily far. I used balanced N-ary for my RSA-on-a-GPU implementation.Chris Lesniewski-Laashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811329584865728029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8082954141980125536.post-5664774598975286542008-04-11T13:48:00.000-04:002008-04-11T13:48:00.000-04:002008-04-11T13:48:00.000-04:00Factorials are another interesting base (that's lacking a wikipedia article). It's particularly useful for enumerating permutations. I can't find any better references than <A HREF="http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath165.htm" REL="nofollow"/> or <A HREF="http://www.roard.com/docs/cookbook/cbsu2.html" REL="nofollow">this</A>, unfortunatelyrobxhttp://robx.myopenid.com/noreply@blogger.com