In my “n-ary” Gray Code blog a couple of days ago, I asked if it were possible to get a full gray code in a “3-ary” (ternary, base-3) system, in which each digit can adopt values of 0, 1, and 2? The ...

You would be very hard pressed to find any sort of CPU or microcontroller in a commercial product that uses anything but binary to do its work. And yet, other options exist! Ternary computing involves ...

One of the first things we learn about computers is that they perform operations using binary code to represent values. It's a fundamental trait of computing -- but it's not a requirement. It's ...