treeware /tree'weir/ n.
Printouts, books, and other information media made from pulped
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trit /trit/ n.
[by analogy with `bit'] One base-3 digit; the amount of
information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally
likely outcomes (see also bit). Trits
arise, for example, in the context of a flag that should actually be able to assume
three values -- such as yes, no, or unknown. Trits are
sometimes jokingly called `3-state bits'. A trit may be
semi-seriously referred to as `a bit and a half', although it is
linearly equivalent to 1.5849625 bits (that is, log2(3)
bits).