Binary has advantages on a discrete/logical sense (namely bitwise operation). Balanced ternary (just ternary no) has the advantage that the sign is trivially i

Binary 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