On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
I was talking
about word size being a power of 3.
Do you mean a 'multiple of 3' here, or
are you thinking of 3, 9, 21, 81,
... bit machines only?
I think that he meant a multiple of 3, but a POWER of 3 would add the
extra fun that splitting a word into smaller equal pieces would then be
limited to only powers of 3.