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Look into radix economies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
by jabronij 9y ago
Look into radix economies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoI'm aware of that. I don't really see the relevance to modern semiconductor engineering for cryptographic applications though. Differences in radix economy are typically only significant for very small numbers, far smaller than those used in cryptography. The decrease in number of required transistors is rapidly overwhelmed by the increased voltages required to discriminate between states and the resistive (heat) losses incurred by having a mid-valued state. If IOTA were a cryptocurrency for vacuum tubes where the power use is dominated by the cathode heater it might make sense to use trinary. But the last time I checked pretty much every processor around used CMOS FETs... Edit: Idea! Hipstercoin - Trinary cryptocurrency for tube amplifiers! Play your vinyl and mine for hipstercoins at the same time!