monochrome scarab lineart

2026-05-31,
of trivia and ternary

Betony, Sunday, 31 May 12026 HE
2026-05-31 | 26E31 | 2026-151 | 2461192
2026-W22-7 | Q2 | Estate

madrone bark, Soquel, California

2013-10-06 – Sigma DP2
madrone bark, Soquel, California

Tony Esposito – “Papa Chico” ↗

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most of our knowledge of ternary is based on the work On Three-valued Logic (1920) by Jan Łukasiewicz – Jan Łukasiewicz also invented Polish notation – a parentheses-free prefix notation

“balanced ternary” was chosen for Setun – [–1, 0, +1] or [–0+] – “balanced around zero” – the most significant (non-zero) trit also indicates whether the whole number is positive or negative (no need for a separate sign bit or two’s complement) – and rounding is easier, just zero out anything after the decimal

Three-valued logic ↗
Jan Łukasiewicz ↗
Balanced ternary ↗

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