Why binary and not ternary computing?

Question

Isn\'t a three state object immedately capable of holding more information and handling larger values? I know that processors currently use massive nets of XOR gates and th

Answer 1

Another major hurdle is that there are a much larger number of logic operations that would need to be defined. The number of operators is found by the formula b^(b^i) where b is the base and i is the number of inputs. For a two input binary system this works out to 16 possible operators. Not all of this are usually implemented in gates and some gates cover more than one condition, however all of them can be implemented with three or less of the standard gates. For a two input ternary system this number is much higher about 19683. While several of these gates would be similar to one another, ultimately the ability to design basic circuits manually would be almost impossible. While even a freshmen engineering student is able to design basic binary circuits in their head.