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a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 05:51 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701444 << you can work towards the fuck you please. like say the http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=balanced+ternary or the http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=serial+computer or so on.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701444 << you can work towards the fuck you please. like say the http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=balanced+ternary or the http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=serial+computer or so on. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: davout because he's not supposed to do emulation on the worker. if your kernel runs javascript, you expose reals. if your kernel runs balanced ternary, you exposed balanced ternary.
asciilifeform: i dug balanced ternary system out of FUCKING BOOKZ
assbot: Balanced ternary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary "Donald Knuth has pointed out that truncation and rounding are the same operation in balanced ternary ? they produce exactly the same result (a property shared with other balanced numeral systems). "
mircea_popescu: balanced ternary. because lezzies are 10x more likely to live threesomes than heterosexual scum
ozbot: Balanced ternary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary
asciilifeform: which naturally mapped to balanced ternary
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)