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dathinab | on: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Doesn't matter ternary computers just have ternary bits, 8 of them ;)
mathgenius | parent | next
Ternary computers have 8 tits to a byte.
tbrownaw | root | parent
Should be either 9 or 27 I'd think.
epcoa | root | parent
Why can’t it be 8?, the fact that it’s a trit doesn’t put any constraint on the byte (tryte ? size). You could actually make it 5 or 6 trits (~9.5 bits) for similar information density. The Setun used 6 trit addressable units.
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AStonesThrow | parent
Supposedly, "bit" is short for "binary digit", so we'd need a separate term for "ternary digit", but I don't wanna go there.
epcoa | root | parent | next
The prefix is tri-, not ti- so I don’t think there was any concern of going anywhere.

It’s tricycle and tripod, not ticycle.

bryanlarsen | root | parent
The standard term is "trit" because they didn't want to go there.