Xref: utzoo sci.math:7125 comp.misc:6416 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!root44!hrc63!pj From: pj@hrc63.co.uk (Mr P Johnson "Baddow") Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.misc Subject: Re: Base 3 computers? (was: Divide by three?) Message-ID: <626@hrc63.co.uk> Date: 26 Jun 89 15:19:23 GMT References: <6710021@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <6250@sunray.UUCP> Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley, England. Lines: 12 Nearest I ever heard of to this was in Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", where there was a computer which used trinary. In a throw-away line, one character deduced that it must use three phase power. Ever since I read that I have been trying to figure out how it could work. -- Paul Johnson, | `The moving finger writes, And having writ, moves on,' GEC-Marconi Research | Omar Kyham when contemplating `vi'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The company has put a radio inside my head: it controls everything I say!