Editing Setun (section)

== Critics ==
[[Brian Hayes (scientist)|Brain Hayes]] argues in his article ''Third Base'' that Brusentsov did not realize the theoretical advantage of the base 3 system:<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hayes |first=Brian |date=2001 |title=Computing Science: Third Base |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27857554 |journal=American Scientist |volume=89 |issue=6 |pages=490–494 |doi=10.1511/2001.40.490 |jstor=27857554 |issn=0003-0996}}</ref>{{blockquote|Unfortunately, Setun did not realize the potential of base 3 to reduce component counts. Each trit was stored in a pair of magnetic cores, wired in tandem so that they had three stable states. A pair of cores could have held two binary bits, which amounts to more information than a single trit, and so the ternary advantage was squandered.}}