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in reply to To Trinary or not to Ternary

In fact, my edition of the Camel mentions Trinary as well as Ternary as names for the conditional operator (?:). I know that when I used C++, we used the word ternary.

Some very brief research reveals that the word Trinary does not "exist," per se. But I believe that lwall & co. actually make a brief joke about the fact that trinary does not exists.



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Re: Re: To Trinary or not to Ternary
by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Dec 05, 2003 at 18:44 UTC
    Some very brief research reveals that the word Trinary does not "exist," per se.

    Some very brief research on my part reveals that the word "trinary" does exist :-)

    It's in my Chambers Dictionary. It's in my Longman Dictionary of the English Language (which defines it as a synonym of "ternary"). And it's even in my Collins Robert French-English English-French Dictionary.

    dave

      And... it's a valid Scrabble™ word.

      -sauoq
      "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
      
      Well, I gues that the 1913 edition of Webster's Unabrigded and the Free online dictionary of computing just aren't "in the know" ;)


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