mat_trw

Using the fact MOSFET can only have two distinct states to prove that the binary positional system is superior to ternary is a bit like using the number of fingers we have to argue that decimal is the best number system to work in.

Not sure what the author was thinking when he wrote the paper but this is one of the cases where peer review would have helped him a lot to make less grand statements.

>Until tri-state transistors are mass produced binary encoding of numbers is the natural system for computers to work in.

From memory the Setun used vacuum tubes which could natively handle three states at the hardware level.