> Balanced Ternary can be mathematically elegant way to represent numbers When discussing ternary computation, I always see people talking about representation

> Balanced Ternary can be mathematically elegant way to represent numbers When discussing ternary computation, I always see people talking about representation and storage. In these aspects, ternary can indeed be more elegant and efficient than binary. I never see any discussion about the complexity of the physical circuits, though. From the little I have seen (see [1]) it seems that using ternary circuits for computation will never be a good idea. Even though you'd need fewer wires to carry information, that advantage is more than cancelled by the increased complexity of the computation circuits themselves (those papers compare specifically binary and ternary adders and multipliers). [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.06841.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.06841.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.07299.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.07299.pdf