Today is Blueday, Mars 5, Year 2. From now on I will refer to myself as Chroma Crypto, in order to promote the Chroma Celestial Calendar. I signed previous post as Growling Griffin as a way to express homage to heraldry and ancestry. But now I will use the Chroma moniker as I feel it's more fitting. You can read more about the Chroma Celestial Calendar from my first Steemit post.
This calendar was created for fun, initially, but now that I have been using the Chroma Celestial Calendar into year two, I see a bigger potential. My goal now is to create yet another calendar, this calendar will be lunar/solar and be based on the Hebrew/Islamic calendars. This new, yet to exist calendar, will also be a new phonetic alphabet. Perhaps a new numbering system too.
Observe the month of Mars above. During a regular year, and not a leap year, every month has 35 days except the last month, Sun month. That means no matter what planetary month, it always begins with 1, and ends with 35. Sun month is 15 days during a normal year. The days of the week are represented by color, Redday, Orangeday, Yellowday, Greenday, Blueday. After using this calendar for a year I am already associating day numbers with colors. Today I realized this can function as an excellent counting system too. Observe the image below.
You might be asking yourself. Why bother? Isn't base 10 good enough to count with? I'm not sure but the first thing I considered was computer programming, where every iteration matters. In computer programming the code is constantly being converted from base 10, to base 2, to base 8, to base 16. And if it's base 16, if you want to be base 10, you have to go down to base 2 to find a common factor. Ok, so let's just consider a piece of pseudo code,
If x + y = 2
do.this
Now let's say you are analyzing some piece of data millions or billions or googolplex amount of time. So lets compare base5 over five iterations and base10 over 5 iterations.
Base5: 0123401234012340123401234
Base10: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
That's half the computation power because if you don't need all those extra symbols or representations of those quantities. Converting from base 5 to base 10 should be easy, shouldn't it? While discussing this with a friend, he mentioned how quick we are to want to compute, what about bifurcation? Maybe we can devise better computation but thinking up ways to bifurcate and split, rather than add. Who can find me any mathematicians, computer programmers or other smart people who can point me to more knowledge about this Quinary base-5 math stuff? Thanks for listening you crazy Earthlings you. Have a nice Blue-evening.
- Chroma Crypto
Year 2, Blueday, Mars 5
(edit) The example above is mistaken because I combined Arabic numbers, there is no "symbol 7" to represent 7 Blue, it would have to be expressed using some other method similar to binary. But I wanted to show, in a visual way, for non-mathematicians how a base system works.