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[zeitghost]

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

[Bunk]

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

[mudskipper]

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.

[NickFitz]

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

[zeitghost]

1, 0, -1 apparently.

24 trit word.

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

[DaveB]

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.

[zeitghost]

Or according to

History-of-Ternary-Computers

an 18 trit world.

[zeitghost]

Still

Bored.

Now.

[NickFitz]

[NickFitz]

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