The ternary numeral system (also called base-3) has three as its base. Analogous to a bit, a ternary digit is a trit (trinary digit). One trit is equivalent to log23 (about 1.58496) bits of information.
base 15
base 15 is a positional numeral system with fifteen as its base. It uses 15 different digits for representing numbers. The digits for base 15 could be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, and e.