> I honestly don't know that I'd be able to debug "When all but one wire in a group of wires switch, that one will switch also." in my binary counter's inputs o

> I honestly don't know that I'd be able to debug "When all but one wire in a group of wires switch, that one will switch also." in my binary counter's inputs or outputs. The intention of the maxim is to design the system in a such way that the all-but-one situation never happens. And if it has to happen then you need to be sure that the “analog stuff” and “black magic” like power supply decoupling and ground return paths is handled correctly. And in fact the binary counter is perfect example for that. You can design that as an ripple counter or synchronous counter. Ripple counter is simpler and does not suffer from these kind of issues because the switching ripples through the bits LSB to HSB, which also means that there is a period of time before the output stabilizes where it is simply wrong, which is the main drawback of that design.