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=== Advantages ===
Brusentsov found the ternary number system superior over the binary number system: it allowed him to create very simple and reliable elements, plus he needed seven times fewer elements than the Gutenmakher's computers. The power source requirements were also signficantly reduced because a smaller amount of magnetic rods and diodes was used. He also found the natural number-coding system used in the ternary system superior over the direct, reciprocal and supplementary number coding used in the binary system. He maintains that the ternary system is superior to binary in most aspects, published several papers advocating the ternary system during 1985-2014.

The symmetic nature of balanced ternary logic allows for natural representation of negative numbers.

The ternary system is also more efficient from an [[information theory]] persepctive. [[Donald Knuth]] wrote in his book ''The art of Computer Programming''  that "Perhaps the symmetric properties and simple arithmetic of this number system will prove to be quite important some day,"<ref name="Knuth">{{Cite book |last=Knuth |first=Donald |title=The art of Computer Programming |publisher=Addison-Wesley |year=1997 |isbn=0-201-89684-2 |volume=2 |pages=195–213 |authorlink=Donald Knuth}}</ref> noting that,{{blockquote|The complexity of arithmetic circuitry for balanced ternary arithmetic is not much greater than it is for the binary system, and a given number requires only <math>\log_3 2 \approx 63 \%</math> as many digit positions for its representation."<ref name="Knuth"/>}}In the paper ''The Prospects for Multivalued Logic: A Technology and Applications View'', [[Kenneth C. Smith]] argued that multi-valued logic is a solution to the interconnection problem in digital systems.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |date=September 1981 |title=The Prospects for Multivalued Logic: A Technology and Applications View |url=https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.1981.1675860 |journal=IEEE Transactions on Computers |volume=C-30 |issue=9 |pages=619–634 |doi=10.1109/tc.1981.1675860 |issn=0018-9340}}</ref> In particular, [[Douglas W. Jones|Douglas W.Jones]] suggests that the ternary system will reduce the number of interconnection wires by <math>36\%</math>.<ref name="Jones">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Douglas |date=April 1, 2012 |title=Douglas W. Jones on Ternary Computing |url=https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/ternary/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=homepage.cs.uiowa.edu}}</ref>