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Binary is what we use on computers. It can encode anything but not always optimally. A quark's color for instance, is ternary.

You'd probably benefit from reading about fractional bit encodings:

Donald Knuth proposed a "a positional numeral system whose radix is an imaginary...or complex number":

Whoa, interesting...

Whoa . That's pretty cool, TIL, thank you!

You're welcome, I felt the same way when I first stumbled upon it :-)