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    Speaking of base 3, did the assembled congregation know that those damned Russkies had a computer that used ternary?

    Still trying to get my head around that one.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

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      Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
      Speaking of base 3, did the assembled congregation know that those damned Russkies had a computer that used ternary?

      Still trying to get my head around that one.

      Setun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      I believe SKA runs on that

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        Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
        Speaking of base 3, did the assembled congregation know that those damned Russkies had a computer that used ternary?

        Still trying to get my head around that one.
        On, off or half way.

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          Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
          Speaking of base 3, did the assembled congregation know that those damned Russkies had a computer that used ternary?

          Still trying to get my head around that one.

          Setun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
          Yes, I remember that from a talk at the local Café Scientifique about ten years ago on the more obscure computers of history. He also talked about Konrad Zuse's kit: Konrad Zuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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            1, 0, -1 apparently.

            24 trit word.

            http://link.springer.com/chapter/10....642-22816-2_10

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              Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
              Speaking of base 3, did the assembled congregation know that those damned Russkies had a computer that used ternary?

              Still trying to get my head around that one.

              Setun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
              The first example of Fuzzy computing. It has three values. Yes, No and Maybe.
              "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                Or according to

                History-of-Ternary-Computers

                an 18 trit world.

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                  Still

                  Bored.

                  Now.

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                      We're using some service hosted in Germany, and there's a problem because of timezones. Dev here sends a detailed explanation of how the error is arising to the German dev, who replies that he's unable to reproduce the issue.

                      Which of course he can't, because he's in the same timezone as the service, and the whole point is that it falls over when you're in a different timezone

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