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[areyoulovers]

Um... I don't mean to alarm anyone, but it seems the community has developed trinary code!

I just thought everyone should know!

Comments

[stone_gun_nest]

Trinary? Okay, uh, I know computers work in binary, so what's that?

[Mind you, he doesn't actually know what it is computers do in binary, just that it's involved somehow. Jak's very much a practice-over-theory kind of guy - he knows how to make things go, but very seldom knows why they go.]

[areyoulovers]

Basically, it's using three numbers instead of two! In this case 0, 1, and 2, although -1, 0, and +1 are also possibilities!

[stone_gun_nest]

Okay... And the community using this instead of binary is... bad?

[areyoulovers]

Well, there's nothing inherently bad about it, but it's certainly quite unusual!

[nopodbaydoors]

...I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with that sort of code. Could you explain?

[areyoulovers]

I've been informed that the proper name is ternary logic... it involves three numbers instead of the usual 0 and 1, you see.

[nopodbaydoors]

Ah, I see. Trinary was an excellent decision for a name, in that case, considering you did not know there was one already. And that is surprising.

[areyoulovers]

Yes, it's quite surprising! I would say it was impossible if it hadn't already happened!

[bare_my_fangs]

What did you break, kid?

[areyoulovers]

Mr. Trinity, please don't joke! This is a very serious situation!

[bare_my_fangs]

I really wasn't joking, kid. Yeah, yeah. So what did you do?

[areyoulovers]

I attempted to put a parental filter in the community, but the program bounced back extremely corrupted!

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[He's read over the conversation with Flynn.]

The community rewrote your code?

[areyoulovers]

Yes, it seems so!

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

That's strange.

[areyoulovers]

It's certainly quite confusing!

[forevernoble]

Trinary? What, like there's something else along with the zeros and ones? Will that even work or is it just superficial?

[areyoulovers]

Oh, no, if you have a machine set up to interpret ternary code, it will work perfectly fine! The problem is, there really aren't any machines like that, at least on my world...

[forevernoble]

Huh. Nor mine. But, twenty-first century Earth, I figure there's quite a few people here ahead of me.

[areyoulovers]

Oh, I'm in the 24th century! But it seems there's a way to mimic ternary code, so that's what we're going to try!