Nikolay Brusentsov
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Nikolay Brusentsov, born February 7, 1925 in Kamenskoe
(Ukrainian SSR
) is a Russian computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced
) ternary computer
, Setun
, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.
Dniprodzerzhynsk
Dniprodzerzhynsk is an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper River.-History:The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Dniprodzerzhynsk appeared in 1750. At that time the villages of Romankovo and Kamianske, which make the modern city,...
(Ukrainian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...
) is a Russian computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced
Balanced ternary
Balanced ternary is a non-standard positional numeral system , useful for comparison logic. It is a ternary system, but unlike the standard ternary system, the digits have the values −1, 0, and 1...
) ternary computer
Ternary computer
A ternary computer is a computer that uses ternary logic instead of the more common binary logic in its calculations.-History:...
, Setun
Setun
Setun was a balanced ternary computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University. The device was built under the lead of Sergei Sobolev and Nikolay Brusentsov. It was the only modern ternary computer, using three-valued ternary logic instead of two-valued binary logic prevalent in computers...
, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.