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I read this as information density in theory, not necessarily in practice. For this result to be true in practice evidence that ternary hardware can be manufac
by Avi-D-coder 7y ago
I read this as information density in theory, not necessarily in practice.
For this result to be true in practice evidence that ternary hardware can be manufactured and operated at the scale of binary hardware, e.g clock speed, error rates and power draw. Everything I have heard prior pointed to the conclusion that binary is more efficient when accounting for the physical properties of the substrate.
I'm sceptical of claims in the realm of physics on the basis of pure math without empirical confirmation.
Is there any modern research into manufacturing ternary chips?
- mantap 7y agoBinary also has mathematical advantages over ternary, for instance 2 is the smallest integer greater than 1 (no shit) so powers of 2 are as close together as you can get in the integers. Bitwise operations correspond to the finite field GF(2), while there is a GF(3) it's not nearly as interesting or useful.
- afiori 7y agoBinary has advantages on a discrete/logical sense (namely bitwise operation). Balanced ternary (just ternary no) has the advantage that the sign is trivially included in the number, so there is no consideration of (1/2 complement or signed/unsigned extension) This is partially a lie, as balanced ternary can be read as normal ternary giving only non-negative integers... Still it is a more natural encoding of arithmetic
- lonelappde 7y ago> powers of 2 are as close together as you can get in the integers. Why is that useful? > not nearly as interesting or useful. Why it that important in computing?