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by scotty79 885 days ago
Thanks. I should have googled this when you mentioned it.

I see that radix economy makes some sense if you assume that the "cost" of the "element" is not fixed but linearly proportional to the number of different states it needs to hold. It was apparently linear for the computers built with triodes but log2(n) to hold n states seems more realistic in electronics. Maybe little more for error resiliency.