Talk:Ternary numeral system

message: From the article:
:Similarily, a currency system using balanced ternary would save visits to the bank - customers would be likely to have exact change, or be able to get a small number of coins in change, and sellers would just occasionally need to deposit a large coin or two
My question: Who is going to want to carry around coins that indicate negative amounts of money.  I would quickly throw away (or conveniently lose) any such coins.
Not really...to buy something worth, say, ψ17 (with ψ meaning a generic currency), you would give the shopkeeper ψ27 and he would give you coins for ψ9 and ψ1. 23191Pa (chat me!) 04:59, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to be a common misconception that you need negative money for this. Here's a way to think about it: when you are buying something, taking the positive digits alone gives the amount of money you give to the cashier, and taking the negative digits alone gives the amount of money you receive back as change. Of course the opposite holds true when you are selling something. Double sharp (talk) 07:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Coinage

message: I have a short tutorial on balanced ternary (and the math tables) here:
http://www.eoti.org/~malachi/tutorials/ternary.html
I was going to add the tables in where the current multiplication one is, but I don't have the time right now to learn the Wiki table format. If anyone would like to convert the tables over for use here, feel free.
FYI the link is dead, the user's directory no longer exists. pity, sounded like what I was looking for. --216.109.69.108 (talk) 16:09, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balanced Ternary math 

message: There is a pointer to the Russian machines, but not to Thomas Fowler's 1840 ternary calculator. ("The Ternary Calculating Machine of Thomas Fowler", in the IEEE journal "Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 27, No. 3, p 4-22 at IEEE Explore)
This leaves one with the misconception (promoted by the Russian pages) that there was nothing in ternary before the Russian machines. Nahaj 14:57, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I don't recognise this system as a computing student, is it really that commonly used?
: It is not that commonly used.  But it has interesting theoretical advantages (Such as [as Knuth points out] rounding and truncation being the same operation. And there have been machines built using it. (Since the 1800's!!!) I encountered it as a computer science student, so some "computing students" do. Nahaj 03:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Use

message: I moved the article to Ternary numeral system, for consistency and also because "ternary" can mean ternary operation, which is used frequently in several programming languages. Ternary has been turned into a disambiguation page. æle ✆ 19:13, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: Should the article mention the Cantor set which consists of the elements of [0,1] whose ternary expansion does not contain any 1s? —Tobias Bergemann 10:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cantor set 

message: From the article:
"Ternary also has a unit similar to a byte, the tryte, which is six ternary digits."
:This is heavily (or at least somewhat) disputed: some would consider it to be nine trits, and I would go so far as to include 27 as a possibility. --Ihope127 20:34, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Three years later, this has not been changed. Anyone? 83.104.249.240 (talk) 04:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed for lack of verifiability. --beefyt (talk) 20:59, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Even better: found a reference for the Setun 70, added under tryte. --beefyt (talk) 21:29, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The size of a tryte 

message: Balanced ternary was moved to its own separate article, but all the balanced ternary talk was left here....
Anyone object to a move of the talk to follow the article?  (: I wouldn't mind, of course, if someone just moved it. :) Nahaj 02:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balanced Ternary move. 

message: On my machine, the symbols ⅓ and ⅔ appear as thirds when editing, but as halves when reading. A glyph for two halves--how strange! I would think then it would be better to avoid them anywhere. Davilla 22:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange fonts 

message: Trinary has appeared in a few esoteric programming languages, like Malbolge and TriINTERCAL. 129.67.18.148 09:39, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More (not quite so) practical uses of trinary 

message: In electronics there are three possible states: no voltage (0 V), positive voltage (e.g. +2 V), negative voltage (e.g. −3 V). So these states are trits. 148.81.137.4 (talk) 02:19, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another example 

message: As stated in The Klingon Dictionary, the fictional Klingon race from Star Trek once used a trinary number system. Completely random, and I don't know if it would be significant enough to add to the main article, but it's interesting to note a fictional reference to this system. Steamboat28 (talk) 17:30, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional Uses and Popular Culture

message: This is minor, but there's no way for me to back and change my edit summary.  diff 434244014
Rather, it is an appositive, but it's a restrictive one, and thus commas are erroneous. -- C. A. Russell (talk) 14:53, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appositive in lead 

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message: As nonary and base 27 are based on powers of three, they are essentially compact notations for two or three digits of ternary.  They would best be covered as sections under the "ternary numeral system" article.Bcharles (talk) 21:50, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This may be a good idea, however there are specific parts of nonary base system which are due to the similar base number as decimal, which should be included. --Reububble (talk) 08:35, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

text: Though nonary and base 27 are based on powers of three, its better to have separate articles for them. Even octal and hexadecimal are based on powers of two but they are not merged with binary. The Compact ternary representation: base 9 and 27 section in Ternary_numeral_system is good enough and merging will only add to confusion for people wanting information on ternary number system. SmackoVector (talk) 06:16, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yup, there're some special properties of these two system, just like that many special properties of octal and hexadecimal. The only difference is their rare usage, which shouldn't be a reason why they'd be merged. Chenxiaoqino (talk) 12:24, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

text: Given the obscurity of these number-systems, a merge seems appropriate to me. --Yoderj (talk) 19:22, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from "Nonary" and "Base 27" 

message: I'd like to know how to create a ternary clock, similar to this one, using LEDs to express ternary values, so that I can add it to the ternary wikipedia page. Backinstadiums (talk) 01:52, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ternary-coded decimal numeral 

message: “Septemvigesimal” is called “heptavigesimal” on the page it links to.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A445:EB91:1:3D8B:7B8A:AFD9:A667 (talk) 19:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Base 27 

message: It seems just to be a random sequence of numbers, written in ternary with colors instead of digits. Without any explanation (or even with) it seems pointless to me. W. P. Uzer (talk) 09:32, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Amricae 154.159.237.212 (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  pono