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Computing power increased by a third by introduction "3" to binary
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rickwestwell
offlineMemberIsn't this just the ternary system, which has been around in computing since Thomas Fowler built a calculating machine entirely from wood in 1840?
Of course, the only modern equivalent was Nikolay Brusentsov's Setun, built in the late 50s.
Many people assume that ternary computing will never catch on, but experts such as Donald Knuth believe the elegance of ternary logic could bring it back into vogue. As a facile example, a ternary computer making use of fibre optics could obviously use dark as 0 and two orthogonal polarizations of light as 1 and -1.
Anyway, I think this joke was done a while ago in the "Potential fibre optic ternary computer could increase computing power by 50%, say experts" FP from last year, wasn't it?
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charlies_hat
offlineMemberThere are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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