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Ask HN: Why Are Computers 2-Bit?
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- stop50 4y agoYou mean probably binary. Binary is easy to understand(on/off), while ternary(developed in the soviet union) were complicate to understand and implement.
- JoeMayoBot 4y agoMS Press recently released Charles Petzold's 2nd edition of Code. It provides insight into the evolution of computers, including Boolean logic and binary code: http://www.charlespetzold.com/books/ http://www.charlespetzold.com/books/
- eimrine 4y agoWhy are computers digital but not an analogue? Claude Shannon has answered this question. Digital signal is easy to amplify and keeping integrity of analogue signal is hard.
- Nomentatus 4y agoThey haven't all been base two (binary.) But the efficiency of designing and building logic circuits for base two won out, soon enough. Building a circuit to say, add or divide numbers in base ten is more awkward, but it has been done. I think base three has been tried, too.