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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > weird bit amounts
 
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qntm
Jun 17, 2009

FPS_Sage posted:

if binary computers use bits, then ternarny computers must use .... ? :xd::xd::xd::xd::xd:

correct, trits :xd:

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qntm
Jun 17, 2009
 I invented Base32768, a 15-bit encoding optimised for sending binary data as UTF-16-encoded text without being mangled by normalization etc.

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qntm
Jun 17, 2009

Zamujasa posted:

well,

that is pretty great

I remember hitting that bug myself and losing all of my data

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