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> 1 and 0 are common representations for true and false in computer science Long before standing for true or false, 1 and 0 have stood for the presence or abse
by falcor84 4y ago
> 1 and 0 are common representations for true and false in computer science
Long before standing for true or false, 1 and 0 have stood for the presence or absence of something arbitrary, so I don't see any issue here.
- endofreach 4y agoTuring, u here?
- cestith 4y agoIn fact, if we consider the presence or absence of truth in a statement... (There is no completion. The trailing off is intended.)
- eurasiantiger 4y agoJust 1s and 0s don’t really do anything useful before we agree on some conventions, such as - byte and word size, - endianness, - semantics of what means what in a string of bits (think Two’s Complement, IEEE 754, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Shift-JIS, Unicode), - what it means to do certain operations on bits (Boolean algebra), - how different binary operations can be constructed from transistors / logic gates (ALU design), - how information can be retained in and recalled from memory (basically just flip-flops), - how said memory is laid out with respect to internal/external devices and program regions (conventions!) - how said memory can be addressed, and how information can be transferred between CPU and memory (bus architectures), - how the computer architecture can be programmed to do things (processor instruction sets), - and whatever I forgot just now… And then some people design and build trinary computers, imagine that.