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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 New Generation Computers?(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: graffitiedheart My programming teacher mentioned something about new generation computers that will not be running off of binary. I tried looking it up on google and such, but didnt' find much of anything helpful, but I'm very interested in learning more. If anyone has any info, I'd appreciate it :D Posted by: Law So far I haven't heard any thing new about next generation computing, :D I'll keep you inform. Posted by: Alexandro they are in lab some test for ADN computing Posted by: killians45 There is also interest in chaos theorem and computing, where it is still binary, but then you have values all in between them. Or was that quantum.... dang, cant remember. Both are actual ideas, though. Posted by: Qiranworms [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by killians45 [/i] [B]There is also interest in chaos theorem and computing, where it is still binary, but then you have values all in between them. Or was that quantum.... dang, cant remember. Both are actual ideas, though. [/B][/QUOTE] It's quantum, and it's still binary in reality...it's just that it can have a superposition of both a "1" and a "0". A superposition is NOT the same as having a third value, let's say a 2, it's just that it can be measured to have either value at a given time. I still don't really understand this, by the way. Posted by: killians45 Hmm... my understanding of it was it was a value of 0 and 1, still being binary, but then there was an almost infinite value between 0 and 1. You're right, though... I don't really understand it either, haven't done alot of research into it. I'm interested in seeing how nano carbontubes will minituraize the modern computers when it is in full production. Posted by: Meithan The basis of quantum computation is as follows. In classical computation, a bit can either hold 1 or 0. We all know this. On the other hand, a quantum bit, or [I]qubit[/I], can hold a 1, a 0, or [B]a combination of both[/B]. So for example the qubit Q could have the value Q = 20%(1) + 80%(0). So this qubit is more likely a "0" than a "1". Of course, when you [I]read[/I] the value of the qubit, as a computer would do, you can't really get both 1 and 0; you get either 1 or 0, just like a classical bit. The difference is that if you could read the same qubit several times, you wouldn't always get the same result. Sometimes you'd get 0, other times you'd get 1. In fact, you'd get 0 about 80% of the time, and 1 the other 20%. Weird? Yes! That's what quantum mechanics is about. :p Posted by: zmatt well computers have always had the problem that code dosent always work right, and every time i boot up i have a very small yet distinct chance the my computer will start laughing at me instead of going into windows. if the same code is never read the same twice dosent that just increase the probablility if windows doing random and anoying things? Posted by: Qiranworms [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by zmatt [/i] [B]well computers have always had the problem that code dosent always work right, and every time i boot up i have a very small yet distinct chance the my computer will start laughing at me instead of going into windows. if the same code is never read the same twice dosent that just increase the probablility if windows doing random and anoying things? [/B][/QUOTE] There's a lot more to all of this that I either cannot explain here, either because I don't understand it myself, or I really don't have the time to type that much on the subject. One thing though is that this is not happening in the next few years. By the time you can have a quantum computer on your desk, I'd be pretty surprised if Windows (or any current operating system) still [i]existed[/i]. I would think that the first real uses of quantum computing will probably be for national security, in cracking codes. Posted by: killians45 that or for weather, medical, true AI, DoD, NASA, and a few other really intense system use. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |