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All the complexity of computing comes from just two bits. (Some even argue that’s true of the universe itself)
by zeroonetwothree 5y ago
All the complexity of computing comes from just two bits.
(Some even argue that’s true of the universe itself)
- dandare 5y agoNot true, the bits live in a super complex hardware, the don't create any complexity on their own.
- 19h 5y agoExcept there’s no such thing as bits on the hardware level. There’s voltages. High and low. That’s usually 5V and 0V, respectively.
- meetups323 5y agoYou're thinking too concretely. The hardware we know is only one tiny implementation of computation. The broader concept holds across any writeable tape of any sort, whether it uses voltages in silicon, rocks on a beach, or exists only in a person's mind, does not matter one bit -- they're all equally powerful.