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trits

trits is the plural of trit.

Meaning of trit

Noun

trit (plural trits)

  1. The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.
    • For example, consider storing trits (recall Section 2.6.4), which take values in {0, 1, 2}. If we use 2 bits per value, then an array A[1, n] of trits requires 2n bits.2016, Gonzalo Navarro, Compact Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 45

Questions about trits

What is trits the plural of?
Trits is the plural of trit.

Words near trits in the dictionary

  1. tritricosanoate
  2. tritricosanoates
  3. tritricosanoin
  4. tritridecanoin
  5. tritrophic
  6. trits
  7. Tritter
  8. trittkarren
  9. trittle trattle
  10. trittle-trattle
  11. tritto

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