Ternary Computing Revisited

Black Acid writes: "American Scientist's Third Base was a nice introduction to the advantages base 3 but didn't really explain ternary computing. Since 1995, Steve Grubb has maintained trinary.cc which covers many aspects of computing with base 3. Not only are the basic unary and binary gates enumerated, which I independently verified as being basic building blocks, but real-world circuits are described also. Half and full adders, multiplexers and demultiplexers, counters, shift registers, and even the legendary flip-flap-flop are all covered with ternary algebra equations and schematics. Steve Grubb touches on problems of of interfacing to binary computers elegantly, although no schematics are given. Perhaps most impressive are the Transistor Models - schematics of the basic gates which can be built from cheap parts available at your local electronic component store."

Comments

3rd base? or base 3?

[sewagemaster]

i guess every average geek can now make it to 3rd base with their girl. all they need to do is to visit radioshack and purchase their on-and-off switches and gates - sounds like someone's semi-automatic gun's fully loaded already! ;-)

So...

[LaNMaN2000]

Does this mean that we're going to give up our bits for tits? Sounds good to me.