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Re: Arithmetic compression.

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Date 2014-07-22 04:49 -0700
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Subject Re: Arithmetic compression.
From jonas.thornvall@gmail.com

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Den tisdagen den 22:e juli 2014 kl. 10:07:10 UTC+2 skrev John Harris:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:26:27 -0700 (PDT), jonas.thornvall@gmail.com
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> wrote:
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> >Encoding binary numbers into base-2 zeroless encoding save digit 
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> >places why isn't it used is there disadvantages doing arithmetic in 
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> >zeroless bases? 27 = 1 1 0 1 1 = 2 2 1 1
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>   <snip>
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> It's not used because transistors can represent 0 and 1 in a
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> non-analogue way. To represent 0, 1, and 2 you have to go analogue
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> with the resulting noise, drift, etc. problems.
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> In other words, binary is much more robust; greater than binary is
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> fragile or has to use more transistors to do the job.
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>   John

I think either you or I missed the point John, 2211 is only a representational technicality. In reality you would store it as 1100 or 0011, both systems 2-radix not three, they only use two symbols it is the encoding circuit decoding circuit that makes the difference.

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Arithmetic compression. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-21 13:26 -0700
  Re: Arithmetic compression. JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2014-07-22 05:01 +0700
    Re: Arithmetic compression. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-21 15:44 -0700
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