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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by dale_glass on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:04AM (#44822245)
Setun apparently used two bits to represent a ternary value, wasting the 4th state.
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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by bux93 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:16AM (#44822687)
We call that 1.58 bit now..
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