Somebody published a paper (back in the 80's?) that posited, digital logic should use base-3. They solved some equation and base-e was the optimum (2.718...) and that is closer to 3 than 2.
But so much easier to do circuits 0-1 I guess. Or the science was wrong. Anyway, just be glad we have the sensible binary system we have. Used to use bi-quinary, ones-complement and other strange schemes. Took a surprisingly long time to settle on twos-complement integers.
But so much easier to do circuits 0-1 I guess. Or the science was wrong. Anyway, just be glad we have the sensible binary system we have. Used to use bi-quinary, ones-complement and other strange schemes. Took a surprisingly long time to settle on twos-complement integers.