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.