Ternary Memes

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Ternary Digit Conundrum

Ternary Digit Conundrum
Someone discovered the perfect naming convention and honestly, it's both genius and absolutely cursed. Binary digit → bit. Makes sense. Ternary digit → tit. Wait, hold on— The logic is flawless. Base-2 (binary) starts with 'b', add 'it', you get 'bit'. Base-3 (ternary) starts with 't', add 'it', you get... well, a term that's gonna make every code review extremely uncomfortable. Imagine explaining to your manager why your ternary computing documentation keeps getting flagged by HR. Fun fact: The actual term is "trit" (trinary digit), but where's the fun in being technically correct when you can watch Gru's face perfectly capture the exact moment this realization hits? Ternary computing is real though—it uses three states (0, 1, 2) instead of binary's two, and some Soviet computers actually used it. They probably had very interesting technical documentation.

The Ternary Operator Fever Dream

The Ternary Operator Fever Dream
This code is what happens when someone discovers nested ternary operators and thinks they've unlocked godmode. The developer is trying to add the correct suffix to a date (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) with a chain of ternaries that would make even Satan say "that's a bit excessive." The best part? It completely ignores 4-20, 24-30, and anything else ending with those numbers. Enjoy debugging this masterpiece when it breaks on the 4th of literally any month! Future maintainers will be adding this developer to their prayer lists tonight.