Wednesday, August 5, 2026

The problem with zeros and ones

Or the problem with Digital computers:

Is that people don't do on and off switches well. So, then they invented Binary computer languages so they could do this better. However, in the end, computers really only know zeros and ones and they do everything just with zeros and ones. It is ONLY people who have designed computer programs by playing games with these zeros and ones in various different ways.

But, in the end, do you want your Adding machine (computers) based upon the Binary system to run your lives?

I don't think so. 

For those of you who didn't know this, an ON switch is a 1 and an off switch is a zero which is all computers really are which is a bunch of on and off switches in sequence that are set up to do different things. 

like for example, an on switch is often "Yes" and an off switch is often "No" so you hope that the launching sequence of nuclear ballistic missiles is going to say "No" most of the time so they don't launch worldwide while no one is watching them one day or night. 

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