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Boolean logic is somewhat unintuitive already, I mean we have whole college courses about it. > At best it would be a waste of an extra bit (or trit), and woul
by bee_rider 2y ago
Boolean logic is somewhat unintuitive already, I mean we have whole college courses about it.
> At best it would be a waste of an extra bit (or trit), and would also introduce ambiguity and complexity at the lowest levels of the machine, where simplicity is paramount.
This seems backwards to me. It isn’t a “waste” of a bit, because it doesn’t use bits, it is the addition of a third state. It isn’t ambiguous, it is just a new convention. If you look at it through the lens of binary computing it seems more confusing than if you start from scratch, I think.
It might be more complex, hardware-wise though.
- mywittyname 2y ago> I mean we have whole college courses about it. Doesn't this have more to do with the fact that it's not part of the standard math curriculum taught at the high school level? I'm no math wiz and discrete math was basically a free A when I took it in college. The most difficult part for me was memorizing the Latin (modus ponens, modus tollens - both of which I still had to lookup because I forgot them beyond mp, mt). Being a college course doesn't imply that it's hard, just that it's requisite knowledge that a student is not expected to have upon entering university.
- JohnMakin 2y agoI agree with you - I found the course to be a snooze fest but I had delayed taking it til my ~3rd year of school.