asciilifeform: people built ARM on C-gates. why this is not done routinely, i can answer.

asciilifeform: C-gate is even more of an outrageous animal than ternary

asciilifeform: you dispense with the 'clock'

asciilifeform: asynchronous circuit (people have actually built classical CPUs with these, 1/3 or so the power consumption of ordinary ones)

asciilifeform: ternary also tastes great with Muller (asynchronous) gates.

asciilifeform: using the slack bits for error correction coding.

asciilifeform: i've some logic i wangled together long ago, that maps consumer DRAM into ternary

asciilifeform: but then you want to use off-the-shelf parts...

asciilifeform: take-home lesson is: you get a machine with fewer moving parts - and fewer weird hacks required to make arithmetic go.

asciilifeform: hence the link

asciilifeform: there's worked arithmetic examples in there

asciilifeform: which naturally mapped to balanced ternary

asciilifeform: more complicated than that

asciilifeform: one dispenses with 'n-complement', adders are simpler, and many other things.

asciilifeform: nope. balanced ternary not only packs denser (ideal base is 'e' from that standpoint) but gives considerably simpler circuits.

asciilifeform: (what i actually suggested was to use 'balanced-ternary', like the russian 'Setun' machine)

asciilifeform: i actually suggested this to curtis

asciilifeform: at least, i personally solved the puzzle by reducing it to SKI

asciilifeform: where you end up using something equivalent to Church numerals

asciilifeform: nock resolves to SKI combinator calculus.

asciilifeform: this is actually true!

asciilifeform: mation they receive? so, did people really _want_ three-ring binders, or is that just what they could buy?'

asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the infor ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: better fortran than 'new for the sake of new.'

asciilifeform: turns 'to the dark side', used evil magic, etc

asciilifeform: legitimate-ish but unsuccessful claimant to the throne.

asciilifeform: critter from 'game of thrones'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these captchas have really fallen through the floor, and i will crib your method when i have a moment of time...

asciilifeform: wish i knew why they bother to write.

asciilifeform: 'smell of kimchi in the morning.'

asciilifeform: for anybody who still gives a damn re: the urbit wars: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1390&cpage=1#comment-8475