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Friday, August 28, 2026
I would assume the same, you wouldn't be able to miniaturize it anywhere near as efficiently
even if 2-state microelectronics aren't actually "on/off"
yeah, I think you could make a really cool lab around it
and because it's going to be friendly to less cutting-edge equipment, you can probably actually work on larger chips in a normal setting
I gaurentee you there will be niche math edgecases where doing something like this is beneficial, but this does not seem like something that will beat out binary computations
In my courses, we just refer to them as trinary units
I also would not call them trits
bits makes sense to shorten because it both sounds good, and also that is the most common unit you would use (second most common being natural units or nats)
at higher levels of abstraction, we're really good at modulation, look at some of the absurd WiFi7 QAM standards
I think there is probably some niche region, where a trinary microcontroller could more efficiently perform
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak bits makes sense to shorten because it both sounds good, and also that is the most common unit you would use (second most common being natural units or nats)
it also sounds good because it has real world application and understanding
I do not believe that is a good reason, since if we were int he weird trinary computing world where that was more useful, trits would still sound weird
bit is just a shortening of binary unit, same as trit, but trit just sounds weird
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak bit is just a shortening of binary unit, same as trit, but trit just sounds weird
yes but to the average person, and your brain
I think that is just a weird coincidental thing where a bit of something already means something, so it kind of just worked out
trit makes me think of trisomy for whatever reason
Yeah I agree
I just think its funny, and probably part of why bits sounds normal
trits probably also sounds less reasonable because of the double t