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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (uucp)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Other advantages of ternaries (was number bases)
Message-ID: <163@edm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 17:24:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: edm.163
Posted: Wed Jun 17 17:24:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 15:45:30 EDT
References: <35@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
Lines: 13
Keywords: redundant binary adders, parallel multipliers, Booth encoding
Summary: I think you're RONG. ternaries still need carry

In article <35@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu>, jsp@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (John Pieper) writes:
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> One distinct advantage of a (+1, 0, -1) number representation is that no
> carry-propagation is required for adders. Since the minor cycle of a machine

You will still have carry propogation in many instances, even if you always
do manage to normalize a number. Granted you may not have to carry as OFTEN
(on the random case), but carry will still be necessary from time to time.

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