puters</a>. Heptavintimal meets this
need, offering a natural encoding for <a href='ternary.html'>3-trit
trybbles</a> in base 27, or <i>septemvigesimal</i>. It is especially useful for
encoding scheme such as <a href='terscii.html'>TerSCII</a>.</p>

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<p>The name heptavintimal is composed of the Greek prefix hepta, meaning seven,
followed by the Latin root vinti meaning twenty, with the suffix mal added, to
indicate that it is a number base. The mixing of Greek and Latin