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They will use balanced ternary rather than binary at the lowest hardware levels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary

I first learned of balanced ternary from this article:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3268,y.0,no.,cont...

(Beware; the balanced-ternary example values there don't seem to be rendering negative digits correctly.)



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