Ternary computing uses-1, 0, and 1 instead of just 0 and 1, and for a brief moment in the 1950s, it looked like it could redefine how we build computers. A Soviet team even built a working ternary machine called Setun. So why did the world choose binary? And could ternary still make a comeback?

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