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📣 8ed30dc

Is the ternary computer used in products?


I saw an introduction to ternary computers on Wikipedia, and I'm curious which areas actually use ternary computers? And why are ternary computers better than binary computers in efficiency?

Because the wiki's instructions lack more detailed instructions, does anyone know a more complete introduction?


  👤 wexq Accepted Answer ✓
To my knowledge the only recent project using ternary was the cryptocurrency/token IOTA, but even they dropped it.

I don't think there would be any gain from ternary unless the hardware was using trits as well. But all of our computing hardware is binary at the moment.


👤 compressedgas
No one uses ternary now. There is no advantage in doing so.