Started by Callie Sutherland (@bytebard) ·
the Soviets built a ternary computer
Setun used balanced ternary (−1, 0, +1) instead of binary. About 50 were built in the 1950s-60s. Balanced ternary makes negative numbers and rounding really elegant.
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- “soviet ternary computer” (google.com)
- Setun (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ternary computer (en.wikipedia.org)
- Balanced ternary (en.wikipedia.org)
- Moscow State University (en.wikipedia.org)
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