Count To ZZZ,ZZZ (V.5)

[Lady M]

BLQA

[Lil'Tiger]

BLQB

[Scarlet Janefox]

BLQC

[PikaPerfect]

BLQD

[yinsum]

:: blqe

[Scarlet Janefox]

BLQF

[siren alley]

BLQG

[Scarlet Janefox]

BLQH

[marsram]

BLQI

what is zzz,zzz in decimal?

the alphabet has 26 letters, which makes it a base 26 number system. this means every number place is representative of 26^n, similar to how in decimal every number place is representative of 10^n. this system is a bit different then what you're used to seeing with decimal, octal, hexidecimal, etc., because we're not using a 0.

so instead of
[100,000] [10,000] [1000] [100] [10] [1]

we have
[11,881,376] [456,976] [17,576] [676] [26] [1]

(numbers on the left are base 26, numbers on the right are base 10)

a = 1 (26*0 = 1)

z = 26 (26*0 = 1*26 = 26)

aa = 27 [(26^1 = 26) + (26^0 = 1*1 = 1) = 27]

ab = 28 [(26^1 = 26) + (26^0 = 1*2 = 2) = 28]

zz = 702 [(26^1 = 26*26 = 676) + (26^0 = 1*26 = 26) = 702]

abc = 731 [(26^2 = 676*1 = 676) + (26^1 = 26*2 = 52) + (26^0 = 1*3 = 3) = 731]

zzz = 18,278 [(26^2 = 676*26 = 17,576) + (26^1 = 26*26 = 676) + (26^0 = 1*26 = 26) = 18,278]

abcd = 19,010 [(26^3 = 17,576*1 = 17,576) + (26^2 = 676*2 = 1352) + (26^1 = 26*3 = 78) + (26^0 = 1*4 = 4) = 19,010]

zzzz = 475,254 [(26^3 = 17,576*26 = 456,976) + (26^2 = 676*26 = 17,576) + (26^1 = 26*26 = 676) + (26^0 = 1*26 = 26) = 475,254]

ab,cde = 494,265 [(26^4 = 456,976*1 = 456,976) (26^3 = 17,576*2 = 35,152) + (26^2 = 676*3 = 2,028) + (26^1 = 26*4 = 104) + (26^0 = 1*5 = 5) = 494,265]

zz,zzz = 12,356,630 [(26^4 = 456,976*26 = 11,881,376) (26^3 = 17,576*26 = 456,976) + (26^2 = 676*26 = 17,576) + (26^1 = 26*26 = 676) + (26^0 = 1*26 = 26) = 12,356,630]

abc,def = 12,850,896 [(26^5 = 11,881,376*1 = 11,881,376) + (26^4 = 456,976*2 = 913,952) (26^3 = 17,576*3 = 52,728) + (26^2 = 676*4 = 2,704) + (26^1 = 26*5 = 130) + (26^0 = 1*6 = 6) = 12,850,896]

and finally...

zzz,zzz = 321,272,406 [(26^5 = 11,881,376*26 = 308,915,776) + (26^4 = 456,976*26 = 11,881,376) (26^3 = 17,576*26 = 456,976) + (26^2 = 676*26 = 17,576) + (26^1 = 26*26 = 676) + (26^0 = 1*26 = 26) = 321,272,406]

so in order to make it to zzz,zzz, that means 321,272,406 posts need to be made.

blqi = 43,715 [(26^3 = 17,576*2 = 35,152) + (26^2 = 676*12 = 8,112) + (26^1 = 26*17 = 442) + (26^0 = 1*9 = 9) = 19,010]

[Lil'Tiger]

(Dang, that's a lot of posts o_O)

BLQJ