Any Comments on the IQ 180

gajinoz

gajinoz

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Anyone out there got a Schrade IQ180? If so, is it a good item or just another of those "novelty" things that I don't want to be wasting my hard earned on?

There is no way I can get to play with one first so I'm hoping one or more of you out there might know something. Thanks.
 
I never heard of the Schrade. I though you were talking about me with the IQ of 180.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I never heard of the Schrade. I though you were talking about me with the IQ of 180.
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180 you say?

What number system are you using there Esav? ;)
 
You like to play with different number systems? I accidentally worked out a neat way of representing base 64 numbers.
 
Different number systems? Any time, Esav.

I think the "IQ 180" is a sort of all-in-one survival kit with a multitool, altimeter, compass, etc. Haven't gotten to play with one yet, but I'm always skeptical of one-thing-does-it-all solutions.
 
I was trying to devise an improved vowel notation for a phonetic script I developed, which is definitely the world's greatest, even today. :) The vowels didn't work out -- too cumbersome. As I was working on simplifying them, I realized it had become a base 64 notation.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I was trying to devise an improved vowel notation for a phonetic script I developed, which is definitely the world's greatest, even today. :) The vowels didn't work out -- too cumbersome. As I was working on simplifying them, I realized it had become a base 64 notation.
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Well, c'mon boy, don't keep it a secret .....
 
64 is both a square (8^2) and a cube (4^3), so there should be lots of nice ways to represent the integers from 1 to 64.
(By the way, 65=64+1=49+16 is the first number that is the sum of two sqaures in two different ways.)
But that phonetic stuff sounds much cooler...
 
I have a nice little sign I made up. Those in the know who see it smile and nod, others just look at me like I'm a couple of sheep short in the top paddock.


There are 10 kinds of people in the world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
 
I guess I can try to describe it.

Start with base 2, binary numbers.

0 = 000 000
1 = 000 001
2 = 000 010
3 = 000 011
4 = 000 100
5 = 000 101
6 = 000 110
7 = 000 111

08 = 001 000
09 = 001 001
10 = 001 010
11 = 001 011
12 = 001 100
13 = 001 101
14 = 001 110
15 = 001 111

16 = 010 000

Notice I do them in two sets of three digits each. The digits on the right are the single number column and the digits on the left are the eight's column.

Now replace the zero with an underline and the one with an upright:

0 = ___ ___
1 = ___ __|
2 = ___ _|_
3 = ___ _||
4 = ___ |__
5 = ___ |_|
6 = ___ ||_
7 = ___ |||

08 = __| ___
09 = __| __|
10 = __| _|_
11 = __| _||
12 = __| |__
13 = __| |_|
14 = __| ||_
15 = __| |||

16 = _|_ ___

Now raise each column separately, the "one's end" at the top, and place them back-to-back, so the underlines coincide. 4 should give you L and 7 should give you E and 9 should give you T and 18 will give you a + sign. By the way, the 9x are symmetrical.

Ultimately, it is a very compact way of representing binary numbers. For example, TIE would be 1 001 000 000 000 111.

* ****** **** ****** *

For anyone familiar with IPA, you can see where I was trying to represent high, middle, or low vowel placement. But I still had intermediate and rounded positions to represent, and it got clumsy.
 
gajinoz said:
There are 10 kinds of people in the world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Most people think they can only count to ten on their fingers. (I had an emplyee who could count to twelve, using the extra nubs that grew out just beyond his little fingers!)

Hold out your hands, palms down, thumbs inside.

Right little finger is 00001 or 1, ring finger is 00010 or 2, middle finger is 00100 or 3, etc. Figure it out ... or finger it out ... all fingers outstretched is

11111 11111 or 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16, + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 512, = 1023.
 
It's a nice compact notation, but many of the numbers don't have a nice keyboard analog. Unless there are other tricks I'm not thinking of, or you're using Chinese characters for some of them :)
 
Anyone notice how this thread has slipped just the tiniest bit away from the original subject? :)
 
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