Asianometry

Ternary Computing: Theoretically Better than Digital


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Recently, people have been thinking about trits. And I don’t mean the Costa Rican ice cream sandwich. Meaning ternary or base three compute. A three-value logic scheme different from the two-value binary logic we are so familiar with. A few months ago, it made the rounds when news broke that Huawei patented a ternary computing circuit that can do AI. Ternary logic has been explored for a long time. Most famously during the 1960s in the Soviet Union with the SETUN computer. Trits have certain inherent benefits over bits. At least theoretically. In today’s video, a highly requested topic. We explore ternary computing.

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