New Computers?

[Illysium]

Re: New Computers?

It's hexadecimal? Well they covered that during a Binary lesson so that is what threw me off.

b) People in this thread need to understand what they are talking about before they post

I'll remember that, thanks.

[RandomPscho]

Re: New Computers?

It's hexadecimal? Well they covered that during a Binary lesson so that is what threw me off.

It doesn't matter at all. All your doing is changing number bases. Otherwise converting between them all is the same logic, just with different bases. A computer uses only binary; 0 and 1's. Either on or off of electricity on the chip. Decimal is the normal number system, which uses a base of 10. Hexadecimal is using a base of 16 to shorten the amount of characters needed to display binary. Each digit in hex is equal to four digits of binary, making it a LOT shorter than writing out the fill binary. There could be a base of any number.


Wouldn't you have to use RNA instead of DNA? DNA is a helix with two sides, inverses of each other, so it could be read on either side, both giving you different information.

[aperson]

Re: New Computers?

It doesn't matter at all. All your doing is changing number bases. Otherwise converting between them all is the same logic, just with different bases. A computer uses only binary; 0 and 1's. Either on or off of electricity on the chip. Decimal is the normal number system, which uses a base of 10. Hexadecimal is using a base of 16 to shorten the amount of characters needed to display binary. Each digit in hex is equal to four digits of binary, making it a LOT shorter than writing out the fill binary. There could be a base of any number.


Wouldn't you have to use RNA instead of DNA? DNA is a helix with two sides, inverses of each other, so it could be read on either side, both giving you different information.

It depends on what kind of reading system you have to read the data. There are some systems, actually, that are programmed to interpret both the stimulus and the negative image of a stimulus (such as Hopfield Nets). Systems like these could read either side of the helix and grab the proper information set from them.

Theoretically, you could have a hopfield net trained to recognize the array of commands that could come from the DNA blocks, and then use the hopfield nets to error-correct and send the information to some higher processing level.