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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:22:43 +0000 (UTC)
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* Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote:
> Dmytry Lavrov wrote:
>>Ha,USSR produced first and last(but don't sure) non-binary computer
>>with base 3
>
> I remember the place in Russian translation of Knuth' "The Art of Computer
> Programming", where Knuth said something like "it is generally possible that
> somewhere, for example, on Mars, one might design 3-base computer", and
> translation editor's footnote remarked that such a computer was actually
> designed and built in USSR.

TAoCP, Vol. 2, Chapter 3 constains a paragraph about an implementation of an
tribinary computer ((1, 0, -1) as bits) from the former CCCP.