Trinary Calculator, good idea?

[Phase]

I had a fabulous idea to make a Trinary calculator. Wouldn't have much use, like everything else on this server , but it would be a cool project.

Thoughts?

[gilianzz]

Sure why not, by trinary (ternary) i think you mean balanced ternary, in that case this is a good site:
http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/ternary/arith.shtml

[Iceglade]

I guarantee you "trinary" is not a thing

[Phase]

I guarantee you "trinary" is not a thing

there is a link in the dang post

[AFtExploision]

that is ternary

[Magic :^)]

Ternary (sometimes called trinary)

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You're both right.

[AFtExploision]

no because who uses trinary

[Phase]

no because who uses trinary

exactly.

I think it would be sweet

[Magic :^)]

I say go for it. It's an interesting idea. What kind of operations do you plan on including?

[Frontrider]

I have a few trenary logic gates, and also an adder prototype somewhere.
I used signal strenght to do it, and its not larger than binary.
But i prefer higher numerical systems.

[tokumei]

I did a ternary adder with kanokarob once ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhpp3qsVGYU ) and I think it' still on my plot. I hope it is.

[Legofreak]

I just designed an analog one. I don't have MC here to test if it works properly though...


full ternary adder. no need for 2 half adders.


6 wide stack. the containers with 13 overlap in the stack and the block with the lever is optional for Cin.

Edit: value 3 changed to 12(compliment)

[tokumei]

Ooh what program is that?

[Legofreak]

AutoCAD. I just drew a bunch of MC blocks and copied them around. completely static.

[Frontrider]

Hmm, the design looks really really familiar. Slightly altered hex adder where you ckeck the output if its a possible result. If yes, than it will make it through if not then it won't. You don't need input check as long as you stay bellow 7.

I tried to copy the design, but something is wrong. Can you ckeck my plot? (Frontryder) I might be wrong but the signal strenght of 3 on the top should be 12.

[Legofreak]

yes you are right It should be 12. it needs to subtract 3 from the output at that point. i must have gotten mixed up. like I said, I dont have minecraft here to test it.

Edit: fixed the picture

Edit 2: thanks to frontrider for assembling the plans. the carry part was a little off but i fixed it and it works just fine.

[Frontrider]

For the record:
That trenary adder is not different from an octal one. That is the base of my decimal adder.
So, thats a really good one if you want to see how its works in "small scale".

[Apocryphan]

I think i still have the fastest analog adder that can be made ternary :p unless someone has one faster than a 4 tick throughput.

[Frontrider]

I think i still have the fastest analog adder that can be made ternary :p unless someone has one faster than a 4 tick throughput.

I thinked a bit about that. If i can make a faster way to determine when to carry, than i would say thats the fastest speed bellow 8.( its some sort of barrier, ist easy to work bellow, gets harder above)