You Want Real Quantum Computing? Follow the Rainbow
Meet Roy G. Biv Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The seven basic colors of the rainbow. Throw in black, grey and white. Now you have a Base 10 hardware architecture using optical transistors and interconnects. A Space Odyssey Binary / Octal / Hexadecimal are all fine and dandy. They exist because current hardware architectures are simple binary zeroes and ones. Take a Byte A binary byte is composed of eight bits. 2 8 = 256 Let's say a decimal byte is also composed of eight bits. 10 8 = 100,000,000 That is a 390,625% increase in the amount of information that can be stored within a single byte. Theory of General Relativity In relative terms, what kind of data savings can be achieved by using a Base 10 hardware architecture? A widely used hardware data type is a 32-bit integer. 2 32 = 4,294,967,296 10 10 = 10,000,000,000 There are two data saving components here: Exponent Binary requires 32 bits to represent numbers between zero an...