> You can beat the efficiency of 5 trits in 8 bits The single trit packing is a commonly optimized DBNULL structure for booleans. Bits/trit approaches the 1.5

> You can beat the efficiency of 5 trits in 8 bits The single trit packing is a commonly optimized DBNULL structure for booleans. Bits/trit approaches the 1.5 asymptote, because that is the fundamental packing limit. The trick is to use it when you have a trit to start with, like when you have a set which is a tiny bit over a power of two. There are places where you end up with odd numbers in set sizes, for example when storing a poker hand. Read Cactus Kev's trick[1] which I think needs a 27 bit section & optimizing it was where I first ran into trit packing. [1] - http://suffe.cool/poker/evaluator.html http://suffe.cool/poker/evaluator.html