Why do we still use binary? Using only 1s and 0s is terribly inefficient especially as clock rates increase...

Why do we still use binary? Using only 1s and 0s is terribly inefficient especially as clock rates increase. Wouldn't it make more sense to use the alphabet instead that way you would have base 26 instead of just base 2 and you would get 13 times the efficiency for the same clock. So 4ghz would be 52ghz equivalent.

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Wow you must be a genius nobody though about it till now...pluss your math is so on point.
What s left ti do is to ask electricity to learn the alphabet.

Do you know what the 1s and 0s stand for?

>Do you know what the 1s and 0s stand for?

Something to do with sex?

how does an electrical impulse have 26 states einstein?

off on 0 1

My electricity understands the alphabet AND numbers from 0-9, so my electricity is better than your electricity.

Off and on obviously. There's nothing stopping engineers from turning binary switches into 26 miniswitches in the same space.

Use analogue then genius. We managed to convert analogue phone lines to digital data so this shouldn't be too difficult.

Ternary would be good, but you have the last 60 years of binary logic thrown out the window.

I don't think OP understands how binary works.

INB4 quantum computers. They're just a meme with no real world application.

That depends on how you interpret the states. How do you suppose certain types of signal modulation works?

Easy to build, not too inefficient (actually VERY efficient with logical operations and bitwise shifts etc.). No ambiguity ever.

It's just easy to deal with and extremely flexible. There's no need for trinary etc. when binary works extremely well already AND works better with logical and bit-level operations.

There was a rusky ternary computer:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

Horrifying logic gates!

Wait, wait, I have even better idea! What if we will use floating-point numbers instead? So we will have a whole INFINITY number of symbols in one byte! Well, not actual infinity, because precision is a thing, and if we can read only 10 digits after the point then writing more precise symbols won't work. Still, I think that's a great idea. I think I should patent it (please don't do it instead of me, that's my idea and not yours).

they can do quantum mechanics simulations in real-time if you have # of qubits >= atoms

that's pretty sweet

That's what he meant by no real world application. If it can't run crysis what's the point.

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They dont stand for anything they are physical 1's and 0's
thats why power supplies are so big they have to fit millions of 1's and 0's in there

Yes there is. A miniswitch is made up of transistors. A binary switch is a transistor.

Not him, but couldn't you concievably use something resistence to communicate multiple different values? It would affect the total watts which is something measurable.

>use resistance
fixed

>what are bytes/words

So you mean parallel...

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First of all you can do 26 symbols with less than 26 bits. Doing 26 symbols with bits however means that you waste a couple because 26 is not a power of 2.

Second of all they tried that already. PCI used to be parallel but in the newer PCIE they switched back to serial and it's way faster. All of the newest buses do the same thing.

Because at that point you're limited to fucking punch card machines, you stupid fucking nigger.

If you build a practical computer that uses base 26 instead of base 2 I will detach both my bottom ribs and skull fuck myself.