Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (; 7 February 1925 in Kamenskoe,

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

– 4 December 2014) was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a ( balanced)

ternary computer A ternary computer, also called trinary computer, is one that uses ternary logic (i.e., base 3) instead of the more common binary system (i.e., base 2) in its calculations. Ternary computers use trits, instead of binary bits. Types of states ...

, Setun, together with

Sergei Sobolev Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, FRSE (; 6 October 1908 – 3 January 1989) was a Soviet Union, Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. Sobolev introduced notions that are now fundamental for severa ...

in 1958. In 1970 he designed Setun 70, implementing principles which were later proposed for the RISC architecture independently. He died on 4 December 2014.НИКОЛАЙ ПЕТРОВИЧ БРУСЕНЦОВ (7 февраля 1925 – 4 декабря 2014)

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1925 births 2014 deaths People from Kamianske Russian computer scientists Russian inventors Soviet computer scientists Soviet military personnel of World War II Academic staff of Moscow State University Russian scientists Recipients of the Order of the Red Star {{Compu-scientist-stub

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