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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 07:52:09 JST goatsarah
   Just seen TERFs saying that “non binary” wouldn’t be a thing in computer science.
   
   I built my career in micro electronics. A physical bit in memory can take 5 different values. Sorry guys.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 07:52:50 JST goatsarah

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     The five are:
     
     One
     Zero
     Weak one
     Weak zero
     High impedance
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 07:54:03 JST goatsarah

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     When modeling this in software, however, we didn’t use five values.
     
     We used nine.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 07:58:46 JST goatsarah

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     • Ailbhe
     @ailbhe A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
     
     Computers are analogue devices that we cajole into presenting a digital fiction.
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     Ailbhe (ailbhe@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 07:58:48 JST Ailbhe

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     @goatsarah I remember a guy who told me you couldn't have a routing anomaly because computers only work in binary. That was in 1999. I've never forgotten how clever he knew he was.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:31:44 JST goatsarah

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     I know nothing about quantum computers, but if they use cmos logic, sure.
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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 08:31:45 JST FeralRobots

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     @goatsarah That's interesting. Could one use that to simulate quantum computing (presumably slower)?