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Or call it a trit, avoid the juvenile joke, and respect decades of computer science history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_numeral_system https://en.wik

• fsckboy 2y ago
  but there are no "trits" in his scheme, he's using base 343 represented in base 2, from which trits can be extracted through a reasonably laborious conversion. also, bits have the dual nature of being boolean logic values, and integers (in fact, arithmetic is done by logic). Bits deserve the honor of their name, and pretenders to the throne are hoping for stolen valor.
  • hinkley 2y ago
    243. Which is 3^5.
  • sigmoid10 2y ago
    A more mathematically rigorous implementation might consider the incompleteness theorems and actually need a third option between true and false (i.e. undecidable). There are non-Boolean algebras out there, such as Kleene's. So us seeing Boolean algebra as the king is mostly a historic outgrowth, not a fundamental truth.
• alt187 2y ago
  Tit tit tit.