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Re:Third Base – Ternary Notation (2001) by databass on Monday February 02, 2015 @05:04AM (#8983483)
Ternary (or even higher n-ary) storage is already widely used: multi-level cell (MLC) SSDs store more than one bit per cell by using multiple voltages (most commonly 4, i.e. 2 bits per cell). I believe Ethernet also uses 3 voltage levels.
Re:Third Base – Ternary Notation (2001) by darkmighty on Monday February 02, 2015 @11:51AM (#8985129)
Communication systems in general routinely have up to 1024 modulation symbols (32 voltage levels for both the sin and cos carrier).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation...