Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Mark Tapley wrote:
<SNIP>
Of course, you could simulate this using 2
binary gates to carry
each trinary digit - thus wasting 25% of the practical power of your
<SNIP>
I think you need to call it something other than "trinary digit" because
that contracts to "tit".
Peace... Sridhar
Hmm, not quite. According to the documentation of Malbolge (an esoteric
programming language specifically designed to be difficult to program
in and using trinary "arithmetic"), that's "trit".
The specification is here:
http://www.antwon.com/other/malbolge/malbolge.txt
So long,
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