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Magic Number may mean other things in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20number%20(programming) other fields] but in the scope of this project the Magic Number refers to a number that best serves as a unit size. Humans like to assign names to units of 10, 100, 1000, etc due to our decimal number system. Binary has a very close "Magic Number" of 1024 which is 2 to the power of 10. Ternary does not align very well with decimal, so the nearest value 729 is chosen; 3 to the power of 6 | Magic Number may mean other things in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20number%20(programming) other fields] but in the scope of this project the Magic Number refers to a number that best serves as a unit size. Humans like to assign names to units of 10, 100, 1000, etc due to our decimal number system. Binary has a very close "Magic Number" of 1024 which is 2 to the power of 10. Ternary does not align very well with decimal, so the nearest value 729 is chosen; 3 to the power of 6. | ||
Ternary data storage units are powers of 729. See [[Data Storage]]. | Ternary data storage units are powers of 729. See [[Data Storage]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 01:16, 1 June 2025
Magic Number may mean other things in other fields but in the scope of this project the Magic Number refers to a number that best serves as a unit size. Humans like to assign names to units of 10, 100, 1000, etc due to our decimal number system. Binary has a very close "Magic Number" of 1024 which is 2 to the power of 10. Ternary does not align very well with decimal, so the nearest value 729 is chosen; 3 to the power of 6.
Ternary data storage units are powers of 729. See Data Storage.
