As Ogden Nash wrote, "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker". There are situations in which a radix other than 2 is episodically useful; and when these situations arise a binary machine can be programmed very readily to exploit, say, ternary or octal logic. Moreover, binary machines can and almost always do exhibit some crucial ternary, signum-like behavior.
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