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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...