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Thread #: 1182Trinary computing
Mon Nov 19 14:36:03 2001
In other news: Since a Bit is a Binary digIT, should Trinary digITs be called Tits? One can only hope.
Mon Nov 19 15:19:56 2001
So how many tits is your computer? mine's 32tit but it can do 64tit floating point calcs with no latency and has a 128tit SIMD unit.
The memory bus is however a choking 64 tit wide. But the new memory interface promises 128tit wide bus at double the clock rate.
Oooh and i just recently got the brand spanking new 256tit nVidia card....
i can only imagine the posts/conversations of the future
as a side note: if you're going to suggest an article to read, could you please link it.
Its one of my biggest pet peeves when people discuss an article but don't fucking link to it.
ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
phear me phool!!!!
:cheesy:
Mon Nov 19 15:49:10 2001
[url=http://www.trinary.cc/]www.trinary.cc[/url]
It's pretty cool.
Mon Nov 19 23:16:02 2001
Wed Nov 21 20:29:28 2001
My computer already does "trinary". It's called "disconnecting from the bus". It's quite common.
@_@
Utter bollocks.
Wed Nov 21 20:49:55 2001
Wed Nov 21 20:50:10 2001
Is he gonna invent a third magnetic pole so he can store stuff?
What dogjizz.
Wed Nov 21 21:20:21 2001
Besides, how else was I gonna do a bits->tits joke? :confused:
Wed Nov 21 21:32:00 2001
Wed Nov 21 22:30:59 2001
I'm a revolutionary innovator like that Linus Torvalds! He invented UNIX you know, and that was used on the Space Program so it must be good!
Thu Nov 22 01:52:50 2001
There is no "new" third" state its just a -1
So binary is: 010101010101
trinay would be something like -1010-1010-1
and from what i understand currently all computers only look at the 'positive part' of the current and ignore the negative side. So trinary chips, instead of working on the positive and zero currents, would also work with the negative currents.
I'm just taking some liberties in jumping around what I read, but its close enough to what was said. I'll look up the remarks related to this if anyone is interested.
oh and trinary can also be written as 012012012 where 2 == -1 but there was an explanation to why 012012012 is not the proper way to work with trinary.
Thu Nov 22 10:28:08 2001
from OscarWilde posted at 1:52 am on Nov. 22, 2001
did you guys even read the article? and the input from some of the 'knowledgable' slashdotters?
I don't "do" /..
There is no "new" third" state its just a -1
That's completely meaningless. "-1" is a new state. "1" and "0" are just names (normally meaning "current flowing" and "current not flowing"). Whether another state is called 2 or -1 is neither here nor there.
So binary is: 010101010101
trinay would be something like -1010-1010-1and from what i understand currently all computers only look at the 'positive part' of the current and ignore the negative side.
No, they don't. Whilst some devices (e.g. SCSI devices) use differential signalling (each bit of input has two wires. When they're at the same (nominally grounded) level, that's a "0", when they're at a different (nominally -ve and +ve) level, that's a "1". This better maintains signal integrity at high speeds.
So trinary chips, instead of working on the positive and zero currents, would also work with the negative currents.
There are no negative currents on which to work.
oh and trinary can also be written as 012012012 where 2 == -1 but there was an explanation to why 012012012 is not the proper way to work with trinary.
Any such explanation is bullshit. You could work with binary as 0 and 1, or A and B, or sheep and cow, or any two states. Ditto trinary. 012 makes more sense (it's not meaningful to write 01-111-1 when you mean a single number), though, of course, in the *mod* (not base) 3 world, 2 == -1.
Sun Nov 25 04:19:33 2001
Tue Nov 27 00:19:53 2001
Tue Nov 27 00:43:23 2001
But then again, what do i know?