Undulations

I’ve come up with a novel way to represent the degree of goodness and badness of things, without resorting to ambiguous terminologies like “okay”, “not bad”, “great” and “awesome”; or needing to state mathematically precise percentages, a la “50% good”.

The system proposes the use of “good” and “bad” as absolute adjectives, representing “100% good” and “100% bad” – or, if you prefer, “totally awesome” and “bulls*it”.

Any chain of the words can be coded according to their positional values like the binary system.

For example, “good good bad good” equates to 1×10⁰ + 0×10¹ +1×10² + 1×10³ = 13, a goodness index of 13/15, or 86.67% goodness. (The denominator, 15, is the value of binary 1111, the goodness degree of “good good good good”. If there were five words, like “good bad bad good bad”, the denominator would have been 31. For an n-word goodness adjective, the denominator is 2ⁿ-1).

Using this system, any level of goodness can be represented precisely without resorting to rigid mathematical notations. Have fun!

Summary: It’s weekend and I’m a nerd with an awful lot of time to spare!