I think you need to call it something other than
"trinary digit" because
that contracts to "tit".
Hey, that might be as close as some computer geeks get to the real
thing...BUT I DIGRESS...
But there is a nit. The information theory people use it. It is basically
a unit of information with e states. e as in 2.818....
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org