A trit in two bits, and the code nobody uses

Binary hardware stores a trit in two bits: -1 as 00, 0 as 01, +1 as 10. The fourth code, 11, means nothing: a quarter of the codes are wasted.

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gHashTag/t27 specs/ternary/trits.t27 (t27#8979): every value on the page is its fn bodies, compiled to wasm (logic.js), with 18 tests and 4108 runtime asserts

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