And if you need to store values that are not powers of 2, you can use the following kind of encoding/decoding. In python3: from math import * def numb

And if you need to store values that are not powers of 2, you can use the following kind of encoding/decoding. In python3: from math import * def number_to_trits(n): # little-endian encoding # (i.e. smallest precision trit first) trits = [] v = n for i in range(1,9): v, d = divmod(v, 3**i) trits.append(d) return trits print(number_to_trits(8)) # [2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] def trits_to_number(trits): n = 0 for i, trit in enumerate(trits): n += trit*3**i return n print(trits_to_number([2,2])) # 8