Why do computers run on binary and not just the regular base 10 system? Wouldn't a base 10 computer be 5 times more powerful than a base 2 computer?
>>51732434
0/10, sage
>>51732434
no because to represent 10 you need two bits instead of just one bit for binary
>>51732434
Easier to make things that can be in 2 different states than in 10.
Russians built a ternary computer once, and ENIAC was decimal. It didn't really catch on.
0/1, sage
>>51732434
Okay, assuming this isn't bait. Because you know what the simplest possible way to represent information using electricity is? A switch. Which is in exactly one of two states, on or off. Can you make computers with things that have more than two states? You can, and it's been done, actually. Many analog mechanical computers were built this way. But for an electronic computer, it's simple to measure if current is present or absent (1 or 0) and difficult to measure whether it's 0 volts, 1 volt, 2 volts ... or 10 volts, and to do so very accurately and quickly.
>>51732512
Is this a way of saying boolean comparison is the best way to evaluate data?
>>51732919
yes
>>51732434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrx3SBEpL8
>>51732450
>not 0/1
pleb
