Python's pow builtin does binary exponentiation, if your arguments are ints. If the arguments are longs or a intermediate or final result overflows it uses left-to-right binary exponentiation or ...

This balanced ternary system is, ‘Perhaps the prettiest number system of all,’ writes Donald Knuth, and now this number system has made it into silicon as a real microprocessor.

As AI technology evolves, the environmental impact of energy consumption in data centers has become a pressing issue. Ternary systems and linear-complexity multiplication (L-Mul) could slash ...