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Comment by jsemrau

Comment by jsemrau 3 months ago

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I still hold the opinion that ternary instead of binary would lead to an even higher degree of compression.

xmasotto 3 months ago

The underlying memory is still binary, or were you proposing an entirely new computer architecture with ternary gates?

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  • buildbot 3 months ago

    Not necessarily new - first ternary computer was around in 1959! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

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