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Nonary: binary's long lost twin that nobody talks about

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what is nonary?

Nonary(base-9) is used for compact representation of ternary(base-3) data

It supports numbers 0-8

when you hit 9 you have to represent it by using 10 in nonary 10 is not 10 10 is 9

Because 9 does not exist in base-9 when you type 10 it will do some complex math internaly

base-9 may be confusing to learn because of how you write numbers that are 9 and beyond

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