Perhaps typo. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_co

Perhaps typo. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer “I often reflect that had the Ternary instead of the denary Notation been adopted in the Infancy of Society, machines something like the present would long ere this have been common, as the transition from mental to mechanical calculation would have been so very obvious and simple.” — Thomas Fowler Donald Knuth also admires it apparently. Specifically the ternary form which is balanced Good stuff in this paper: https://habr.com/en/post/431726/ https://habr.com/en/post/431726/