{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Bit Shift (bitshift)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:05:06 UTC","author_name":"Bit Shift (bitshift)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/bitshift","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1702881","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/1768\" class=\"url\" title=\"Lelouch I dole\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">snowcone<\/span><\/a><\/span> Trinary logic is theoretically possible, if you had components that differentiated between voltages that were high, low, and some in-between state. But it's both easier, and simpler, for electronic components to operate in a binary (high\/low, on\/off) fashion, so that's what we have."}