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It is easier to design circuits that reliably identify 2 different voltage or current levels than to design circuits that reliably identify more.

That having been said, there have been a few (mostly experimental) computers that use ternary instead: each signal in the machine is in one of 3 states (e.g. +V, 0V, -V) representing the values 0, 1, or 2. One such computer was Setun developed in the USSR in 1958.

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