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cyberax ◴[] No.41874839[source]
But think of ternary computers!
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dathinab ◴[] No.41874847[source]
Doesn't matter ternary computers just have ternary bits, 8 of them ;)
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mathgenius ◴[] No.41874912[source]
Ternary computers have 8 tits to a byte.
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tbrownaw ◴[] No.41875195[source]
Should be either 9 or 27 I'd think.
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epcoa ◴[] No.41875221[source]
Why can’t it be 8?, the fact that it’s a trit doesn’t put any constraint on the byte (tryte ? size). You could actually make it 5 or 6 trits (~9.5 bits) for similar information density. The Setun used 6 trit addressable units.
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