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Supposedly, "bit" is short for "binary digit", so we'd need a separate term for "ternary digit", but I don't wanna go there.
by AStonesThrow 2y ago
Supposedly, "bit" is short for "binary digit", so we'd need a separate term for "ternary digit", but I don't wanna go there.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThe standard term is "trit" because they didn't want to go there.
- epcoa 2y agoThe prefix is tri-, not ti- so I don’t think there was any concern of going anywhere. It’s tricycle and tripod, not ticycle.