I ended up feeling that ternary is just icky, because the "middle value" doesn't have an "opposite"
Maybe we should do what quaternions did to complex numbers and just jump from 2 to 4: Quaternary CPUs
I couldn't understand half of the words it spat out but it turns out that using pairs of "quits" as the atomic computation unit to represent complex numbers and/or 2x2 matrices could be ideal for AI etc.
There's a somewhat famous result that base e gives the best expected density for representing numbers, but fractional (and especially irrational) bases are inconvenient for real-world quantities. So ternary is theoretically the best integer choice, but binary has practical advantages for electronic logic.
Ternary computers were around almost 70 years ago, and first posited well over 100 years ago.
Maybe ChatGPT isn't the best place to do research.
Did I say I wasn't aware of ternary you dumdum?
Even if you want to be anal, ternary is still "post-binary" even if it came out 300 years ago.
Ternary encodings are also popular for data transmission, for example both USB4 and GDDR7 use PAM-3 encoding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345
There's nothing more cringe than a dumb person being judgmental