><td> -1</td>
</tr>
</table>

<p>The layout used here differs from <a
href='http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/ternary/hept.shtml'
target='_blank'>Douglas W. Jones' proposal</a> which requires a large LUT to
render the notation, this one relies on the fact that the 27 characters needed
for the system conveniently fits by simply adding a zero at the start of the
roman alphabet. </p>

<table border='1'>
<tr><th>Decimal</th><th>Ternary</th><th>Nonary</th><th>Hept</th></tr>
<tr><td> 1 </td><td> 1</td><td> 1<