Your computer uses ones and zeros to represent data. There’s no real reason for the basic unit of information in a computer to be only a one or zero, though. It’s a historical choice that is common ...

Bender: Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere… and I thought I saw a two. Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There’s no such thing as two. – Futurama: A Head In The Polls, S02E07 The ...

One of the first things we learn about computers is that they perform operations using binary code to represent values. It's a fundamental trait of computing -- but it's not a requirement. It's ...

A computer that uses ternary circuits comprising three stages rather than binary circuits, which operate in two. A ternary computer named Setun was built at the Moscow State University in 1958, and an ...