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  • The original computing engine was trinary (0,1,2)

    From Cornette B. Meltzer@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Feb 21 22:05:42 2024
    Imagine what the world would be like today if we had that much extra
    computing power. Instead, we're stuck in a binary-based system.


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  • From D@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Feb 22 01:07:49 2024


    On Wed, 21 Feb 2024, Cornette B. Meltzer wrote:

    Imagine what the world would be like today if we had that much extra computing power. Instead, we're stuck in a binary-based system.


    Quantum computing to the rescue!

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  • From Blue-Maned_Hawk@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Feb 22 01:18:18 2024
    A trinary computer would still be turingcomplete, and therefore exactly as powerful as a binary one, to the degree that computing power can be quantified.


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  • From Julieta Shem@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Feb 22 15:15:09 2024
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    Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> writes:

    A trinary computer would still be turingcomplete

    Technically, we could have a binary or trinary computer that's not
    Turing complete. Turing completeness is a function of the instruction
    set of the computer. Even more technically, it also requires an
    infinite memory. (But when someone says---it's Turing complete---, it's usually just meant that it's able to loop.)

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  • From Jan van den Broek@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Feb 22 17:59:13 2024
    2024-02-22, Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> schrieb:
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    It's possible the someone just wants to fill that group with
    off-topic postings.

    [Schnipp]

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  • From Julieta Shem@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Feb 23 02:45:16 2024
    Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> writes:

    2024-02-22, Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> schrieb:
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    Removed rec.sport.pro-wrestling. (Can't see any sense in that.)
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    It's possible the someone just wants to fill that group with
    off-topic postings.

    Let's not help them.

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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Feb 29 02:26:48 2024
    Why rec.sport.pro-wrestling ?

    Cornette B. Meltzer <banana@various.places> schrieb:
    Imagine what the world would be like today if we had that much extra computing power. Instead, we're stuck in a binary-based system.

    It's not a matter of tradition, it's a matter of efficiency - is
    it easier to differentiate electrically between two logic levels
    and have 50% more things to switch, or go to three logic levels?

    At the current technology, it would actually be more efficient
    to emulate ternary (or, while you're at it, balanced ternary)
    with two bits per three values, wasting one state in four.

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