It also ignores the fundamental realities of CMOS: binary is more energy efficient than trinary. You can save a few transistors (and thus die area) by using tri

It also ignores the fundamental realities of CMOS: binary is more energy efficient than trinary. You can save a few transistors (and thus die area) by using trinary, but you vastly increase your power use & heat dissipation to do so. It's not even optimization!