ternary logic

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Keith R. Williams posted in sci.electronics.design , in article
<MPG.1ab455cf368ddc58989c06@enews.newsguy.com>, at Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:41:08 -
0500:

That's a doctor. After all, they're only licensed to *practice*
medicine.

Or the Microsoft version: "Yes", "No", "Illegal Logic Operation. FLIPFLOP.EXE
will be closed"?


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In article <c2bg4p$1r7s6t$4@ID-88878.news.uni-berlin.de>,
wizard_of_yendorIHATESPAM@hotmail.com says...

Ian Buckner posted in sci.electronics.design , in article
1078481961.997962@cswreg.cos.agilent.com>, at Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:19:20 -0000:


The fundamental precepts of ternary have been studied by accountants,
who describe the three states as "Yes", "No", and "What answer do you
want?".

What about "Yes", "No", "Well... I don't know!"?

That's a doctor. After all, they're only licensed to *practice*
medicine.

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In article <239i40pp1uajtavrvoqqq9036bb6bm7qfs@4ax.com>,
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com says...

On 5 Mar 2004 15:59:30 -0800, bigcat@meeow.co.uk (N. Thornton) wrote:

kvipin@iitk.ac.in (vipin kumar) wrote in message news:<3bf9d8c3.0403030656.70085ae8@posting.google.com>...
hi there

i was just wondering that why despite of using the binary logic for 60
years now ( almost ) we are stilll stuck with that

i mean the way i see it 3^n is much greater than 2^n . i am talking
about the reduction in the size of equipments by a biblical factor
here

Why not go all the way and have base 1,000,000 logic? Also known as
analogue. Analogue computing is practical, and has been used a long
old time.

An additional analogue processing unit in PCs could handle some calcs
that are easy to do in analogue, and relatively hard to do in digital,
and where slight errors arent a problem. Thus leaving the main CPU
with less to handle.

And yes, ternary has been well covered before. Listen to those with
the knowledge.


Regards, NT

Some types of flash memory store multiple bits per cell, using
multilevel logic. They get 2 or 3 bits, I think, by using 4 or 8
charge levels. People once discussed using DRAM this way, but I don't
think it's being done at present.

Last I looked they were doing 4-states/2-bits per cell.

Some fast serial local bus protocols use multilevel logic, too.

Communicatoins. Multiple bits per baud is essentially multi-level
"logic". QAM is old as the hills.

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