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Grich · Mar 31st, 2008, 11:52 PM

There was a couple of very early computers (very very early) that used trinary. The one thing it is used in now, from memory is relational databases, apparently it was a way of cutting down on memory (i think the idea is on the trinary page at wikipedia).
These days, even the octal system seems primitive.

Mar 31st, 2008, 11:52 PM	#3
Grich Professional Programmer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sydney - Australia Posts: 330 Rep Power: 2	Re: Trinary (Base 3) computing There was a couple of very early computers (very very early) that used trinary. The one thing it is used in now, from memory is relational databases, apparently it was a way of cutting down on memory (i think the idea is on the trinary page at wikipedia). These days, even the octal system seems primitive. __________________ SYNTAX ERROR ...