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The IBM 704 used 6 bit bytes (and 36 bit words). A number of people have toyed with ternary (commonly the digits are -1, 0, and +1). https://en.wikipedia.org/

The IBM 704 used 6 bit bytes (and 36 bit words). A number of people have toyed with ternary (commonly the digits are -1, 0, and +1). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1498715 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1498715

rpmisms 5y ago
Wouldn't that be trinary, not ternary? Not an edit, but I googled it, I was confusing it with tertiary. Trinary would also be accurate, I think.
hoseja 5y ago
Balanced ternary is extremely cool and I wish it were viable to reinvent computing using it.