Ternary?

Knuth's base-e proposal enters the chat.

They were right about everything 50+ years ago, but they didn't have the budget for the right hardware, had to write conference papers and books instead.

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jacquesm 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I can totally see how ternary would work from a physical implementation perspective but I have a really hard time visualizing anything using base-e, can you explain how such a thing would work in practice?

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jeffbee 4 hours ago | parent [-]

No it's impossible. But it would be optimal!

	▲	jacquesm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, the spherical cow of number bases :) Thanks for the response, that saved me a sleepless night.