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Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by IWeldMelons on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:22PM (#16460312)
It is not "complete bollocks",it just not as efficient as it appears to be. The reason for the (supposedly) higher efficiency of ternary logic is so called Radix Economy (wikipedia has an article). Properly implemented ternary (with a split power supply - positive, negative and ground) would have the same noise immunity as binary.
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Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by FullyFunctional on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:27PM (#16462349)
"It is not "complete bollocks",it just not as efficient as it appears to be."

That's a contradictory statement. If it was as efficient as claimed it wouldn't be bollocks. But it isn't, thus, bollocks.

"(with a split power supply - positive, negative and ground) would have the same noise immunity as binary."

[citation needed]

I'm not a EE, but my understanding from EE friends is that isn't true.

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Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by ric2b on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:20AM (#16474854)
> Properly implemented ternary (with a split power supply - positive, negative and ground) would have the same noise immunity as binary.

Only if you increase the supply voltage such that: V+tern - GNDtern == V+bin - GNDbin == GNDtern - V-tern

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