The Trinary Dream Endures
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- Alternative vision for computing: trinary (ternary) instead of binary.
- Binary dominated in the 20th century due to its direct mapping to 'on'/'off' states of electric current.
- Trinary is philosophically appealing with its states: 'yes', 'no', and 'maybe'.
- Potential for trinary to produce software with subtler, richer values.
- Trinary may have future applications, such as in efficient language models using weights of -1, 0, and 1.