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So, you want to go from Binary to Trinary (or whatever)?. What would it do to Hard Drives and Processor Speeds?
Well... its like, saying you want to create another new elemental particle, which we'll call a Chicken Nugget, that is half-positive and half-negative (but not neutral). So then there would be 4 basic elemental particles: The Chicken Nugget, Electron, Proton, and Neutron. What would that do to human beings? Well... you can't really think of it like that. You'd have to re-design the everything from scratch... every compound, every atom, everything.
Going to a Trinary system would be similar. You couldn't really compare the speed of a Trinary processor with a Binary one... they would just be different. Somethings would run faster in Binary, some would run faster in Trinary.
As for Hard Drives... they'd have to be made from scratch. If I recall how hard drives basically work, they store a positive or negative magnetic force in the platter... there is no in between. So you'd have to find some sort of material that could have three different settings... and so on. A complete pain in the ass.
Anyway, its kinda interesting, because the next great computers (in many, many years) are going to be Quantum Computers. Each quantum bit (like a really, really, really tiny particles that make up electrons/protons/neutrons... maybe) can store 4 different values. Everything will need to be made from scratch... but a qubit would make things faster and such.
A Trinary system wouldn't be very good either... people are taught Base 10 mathematics, like 4 + 9 = 13. That is relatively easy to go down to Base 2 and Base 4... they're all even, so it makes some things similar. But, Base 3 is odd... and everything would just be weird, and computer scientists' brains would be exploding. Exploding brains aren't the best thing to have as a side effect.
War! >
--redink1
Well... its like, saying you want to create another new elemental particle, which we'll call a Chicken Nugget, that is half-positive and half-negative (but not neutral). So then there would be 4 basic elemental particles: The Chicken Nugget, Electron, Proton, and Neutron. What would that do to human beings? Well... you can't really think of it like that. You'd have to re-design the everything from scratch... every compound, every atom, everything.
Going to a Trinary system would be similar. You couldn't really compare the speed of a Trinary processor with a Binary one... they would just be different. Somethings would run faster in Binary, some would run faster in Trinary.
As for Hard Drives... they'd have to be made from scratch. If I recall how hard drives basically work, they store a positive or negative magnetic force in the platter... there is no in between. So you'd have to find some sort of material that could have three different settings... and so on. A complete pain in the ass.
Anyway, its kinda interesting, because the next great computers (in many, many years) are going to be Quantum Computers. Each quantum bit (like a really, really, really tiny particles that make up electrons/protons/neutrons... maybe) can store 4 different values. Everything will need to be made from scratch... but a qubit would make things faster and such.
A Trinary system wouldn't be very good either... people are taught Base 10 mathematics, like 4 + 9 = 13. That is relatively easy to go down to Base 2 and Base 4... they're all even, so it makes some things similar. But, Base 3 is odd... and everything would just be weird, and computer scientists' brains would be exploding. Exploding brains aren't the best thing to have as a side effect.
War! >
--redink1
