SIGNED TERNARY ARITHMETIC (1952)

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Memorandum M-1496

Digital Computer Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Subject:
SIGNED TERNARY ARITHMETIC

Tog J. W. Forrester
Froms H. R. Jo Grosch
Dates May 22, 1952

Introduction
Large digital calculating machines have been built to exploit the various advantages of pure decimal# bina~-coded decimal, biquinary, and pure binary arithmetics.

The availability of high-speed electro-mechanical and electronic elements hav.ing two stable states has been largely responsible for the swing away from the decimal number system.
Now we find ourselves increasingly interested in ferromagnetic
and ferroelectric storage elements.

There is a good possibility that these can be jockeyed into more than two stable~ or better, "insensitive", states.. Papian has shown me some B-H curves having the general formS

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