Binary logic, binary math, binary circuits -- they're the foundations of computer hardware and software, but why?

Binary and hexadecimal are a bit baffling at a glance. The idea that a computer uses numbers and letters as representations of other numbers isn’t e ...

How Do Quantum Computers Work? We’re all used to binary computers based on processors using transistors to perform calculations. On, off, one, zero…pretty predictable. The game changes completely ...

When quantum computers are fully functional even modest systems in the 100 qubit range may be able to bypass binary security like a hot knife through butter.

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than you ...

Unlike most pieces of computer hardware, this quantum bit handles data using five basic states instead of the conventional two Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up ...