Excuse the obscure title...I just couldn't think of what to call it.

 

Anyways, In quantum computers you can have 1, 0 and 1 & 0. This means less calculations are needed speeding stuff up.

 

Why can't a third character be programmed in that has a value of both 1 and 0. Hence you won't need the expensive and technically quantum stuff.

I used 2 as an example. You could have an entirely new character or a -1 or even a letter. Depends on what the programmer who does it first decides.

 

Opinions on my idea?

Would it work?

 

Perhaps it won't be as fast a real quantum computer but if I am not typing total nonsense it could speed up computers by making them require less calculations.

Edited May 29, 201114 yr by Incendia

If I'm not mistaken, the beauty of it isn't that a quantum computer can have both 1, 0 and 0&1, but that it can have it at the same time.

 

The reason we don't make computers that can differentiate between, say, 0, 1, 2 and 3, is that such a computer would be both expensive and difficult to build. As it is, we only need to separate 0 and 1 by using either high current or low current, which is quite simple. And cheap.

The thing you have missed is that "1 & 0" isn't a third value, it's a superposition of 0 and 1 at the same time.

@pwagen: I think you've misunderstood.

@John Cuthber: I know that in a real quantum computer it would be both 1 & 0 at the same time without being another value, but would adding a third value that was equal to both 1 & 0 speed up computers anyway?