Re: [NTLK] Linux on a PDA - Come on people!

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>>On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 10:34 , Ed Kummel wrote:
>>
>>For instance, forget binary computing...how about
>>"trinary?" three states, on, off and maybe...
>
>On 1/24/02 @ 12:47, Zachery Bir wrote:
>
>Uh, 'cause electricity is on or off?

IIRC, the trinary system was used in the Voyager spacecraft guidance
systems.

In this case, the trinary system was used vice the binary system. So a 5
base 10 would be 101 base 2 and 12 base 3. Unusual system to say the
least.

Sushi

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