Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)
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Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)
If i remember my Physics correctly electrons travel at the speed of
light.. (I think the speed of light is something like 300 000 km/s)
/PoJ
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Adam Kavan wrote:
>
> 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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