Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)


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Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)




speed of light

>Actually I believe that computers really can't understand anything but 0 or
>1, or actually low voltage / high voltage, unless of course you want to get
>into quantum computing.  At least I can't think of a multiple voltage
>transistor.  And binary is "real math" its just based on a different set of
>numbers :)  As far as the speed of electrical vs light I beleive tat
>electical pulses travel at almost the speed if not the speed of light.
>Though I definatly could be wrong there.
>
>--- Adam Kavan
>--- akavan@cse.unl.edu
>
>At 02:46 PM 1/26/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Actually, the reason we have the 0 1 system isn't because computers can't
>>understand them, its because of storage. A computer would be able to
>>differentiate among different amounts of electricity or whatever. A hard
>>drive or a CD can only understand "magnet there or magnet not there" or
>>"hole
>>there or hole not there"  So if we had computers like that, we would have no
>>storage, which would suck. :)
>>
>>In a message dated 1/26/00 1:37:44 PM Central Standard Time, npfs@cybcon.com
>>writes:
>>
>><< as i said stupid finals.
>> anyway as i was saying even though we would have to totally redesign almost
>>everything would it be possible to have instead of a binary code but a
>>system
>>based on tens (red 0, blue 1, yellow 3, etc.)  a digital system is good for
>>now but it has it's drawbacks of computers only unnderstanding 0 and 1 not
>>even actual math.  and plus light pulses are faster than eletrical pulses
>>and
>>copper wires and others arn't exactly perfect.  well let's see how this
>>goes...
>> Bernard >>



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