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Ternary Computing
eviltwinimposter writes: "This month's American Scientist has an article about base-3 or ternary number systems, and their possible advantages for computing and other applications. Base-3 hardware could be smaller because of decreased number of components and use ternary logic to return less than, greater than, or equal, rather than just the binary true or false, although as the article says, '...you're not going to find a ternary minitower in stock at CompUSA.' Ternary also comes the closest of any integer base to e, the ideal base in terms of efficiency, and has some interesting properties such as unbounded square-free sequences. Also in other formats."
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CompUSA??? Why even mention the hideous chain of stores. CompUSA has the most inept employees that are ready to 'impress' you with their Windows knowledge and sell you some worthless $50 Belkin cable.
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CompUSA sucks.
I actually have been thinking that it should not be too hard to come up with a Rijndael variant which uses a tenary system (using a 3^n instead of a 2^8 galois field, of course), since Rijndael is an incredibly easy to understand and very flexible cipher.
The question comes to mind, of course, if whether the galois field should use the elements (-1,0,1) or use (0,1,2) to represent a single tenary bit.
Sounds like a fun project, actually.
- Sam (who only uses crypto for https and ssh, since I, as much as I enjoy the math of crypto, have a "you are as sick as you secrets" point of view)
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We just did some testing, comparing those search algorithms with eachother. Although hashes are more or less comparable in speed with ternary trees, binary trees are much slower.
Some sample output: (btw, we didn't balance the ternary tree, although we did some really basic balancing on the binary tree).
Clearly the ternary tree and hash are much faster than the binary tree. Although there are still some optimisations to make, we believe that the ternary tree will outperform the binary tree at all times.
We also made some (very) cool graphs with Graphviz, but unfortunately have no good place to share it with the rest of the
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