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Binary is what we use on computers. It can encode anything but not always optimally. A quark's color for instance, is ternary. You'd probably benefit from read
by goldenkey 5y ago
Binary is what we use on computers. It can encode anything but not always optimally. A quark's color for instance, is ternary.
You'd probably benefit from reading about fractional bit encodings:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698522
- maerF0x0 5y agoWhoa . That's pretty cool, TIL, thank you!
- perl4ever 5y agoDonald Knuth proposed a "a positional numeral system whose radix is an imaginary...or complex number": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system
- goldenkey 5y agoWhoa, interesting...