Ditching Binary Makes Powerful Computers

New Scientist by Paul Marks August 2009
Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up on the familiar 1s-and-0s binary system used in conventional computers. By switching to a novel five-state system, you will find it easier to build the staggeringly powerful machines. So claim Matthew Neeley and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). So far, the development of quantum computers has followed the traditional binary computing model. This encodes all information using components that can be in two states, either 1 or 0. But other possibilities exist, Neeley explains. "We could use a 'trinary' system with three digits… Click Here To Read The Full Article

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