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Does more bits-per-character but less characters-per-second makebetter use of bandwidth?

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krw

Jan 1, 1970
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Not always.

Right. Sometimes it's .125.
Actually Shannon is no longer with us and he never said that. In
Shannons and many other people's writings, the bit is the unit of
information.

It made his equations easier to read.
.. and a guy named James says "Help! Help! The aliens are sucking my
brain out".

James Skybuck?
Only if you count your thumbs as fingers and you never worked in a saw
mill.

Just because you count your thumbs as fingers doesn't make them legs.
You've never been to China and have flexible hands.

..!!!-..... = 3

!! !!. .!! !! = Live long and prosper
...!!. .!!.. = I am not a crook
No, it is called weird hand signals. A decimal digit would be only
one finger.

A digit is one finger, now matter what number system you choose.
Most computers do this in most cases. It isn't a hard and fast rule
though. Some also have an extra bit for every several that is only
true for one clock cycle.

Some add voltages and multiply with pots.

Skybuck => human translation: carry
[...]
Let's see if it's possible to improve on the binary digital numbering
system.

You need to define "improve"

Skybuck => human translation: "different", "less concise",
"Skybucked", "fucked"
We've known about base 3 for years and years.

Three-way light bulbs use them.
[....]
Well at this point I am gonna stop since it looks like the tertiary
numbering system is more efficient.

No, it just looks like base 3.
You have two transistors, design a circuit that remembers 3 states.

Do I get a capacitor too?
Stop claiming he said things he didn't.

That's the best way to prove a point; lie about what the other guy
said.
[...]
Let's compare:

No lets not. Lets take the case where the fingers can be in 1,000,023
positions, with only one finger you can do much better than you silly
base and limited 3 method. For that matter, you have over looked the
problem of irrational numbers. If the finger can have exp(sqrt(2) *
^^^^^^^^^^

Skybuck does pretty well...
pi), you can encode numbers that would normally need an infinite
number of fingers using just two.

Base 'e' would be much more useful. Maybe we can send Skybuck off in
search of base 'j'. He can come back when he has the computer
implemented.
 
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