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Binary representations...

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 09:59 PM EDT

Actually, the most common representations of 1 and 0 is the difference of
voltages. I'm not sure which is the most common , 0 and -0.5 seem to ring the
most bells. However, that difference values change depending on the
sensitivity of your electrical circuit and does not really affect the argument.

Also, there are many ways of encoding the representation as differences in a
wave to a perfect wave, sound pitches (screeching modems come to mind),
quantum spin, wave diffraction, magnetic moments, capacitance, on/off,
different frequencies, whatever an engineer can come up with.

So, does a different representation of bits make a patent worthless? If the
slide
to unlock is implemented in a quantum computer vs an optical computer vs
an electrical computer does that make it a new invention? A new machine?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

RTL and TTL - Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 06:24 AM EDT

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