Fascinating. I recall reading about the theoretical efficiency advantage that ternary logic had ever binary years ago--wish I could attend to see how it could be made practical.
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Steve Meyers <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Tuesday, May 19th > Time: 7:30pm > Location: UVU Business Resource Center > > In this presentation, Alphy Madsen will provide a brief introduction to > ternary computing, and why it may be more efficient than binary (and why > binary may win out anyway). He will also describe binary and allegedly > ternary circuits for common gates, and then show how these gates can then > be combined to form memory, arithmetic, and computer instructions, to > design a "three-trit"(comparable to four-bit) computer. > > Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a > conference in the back of the main floor. There will be pizza provided by > TekSystems. > > http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
