Pedro I Rengel wrote:Well how would you do that? Other than by making groups of ten transistors, and basically just using the same technology?
Like, how would you provide more than 2 options at the bit level?
ok in really simple terms
you could for example create a system that triggers a value upon hitting a certain voltage
but you run into a few problems
one is that you'd have to keep cranking up the power on them to arrive at different values
another one is interference, which causes, say 1 volt to mean anything between 0.75 and 1.25, give or take
which aggravates the power consumption issue
since you'd have to allow for a big gap between assigning values to voltage
to make up for that margin of error
and then you begin to realize how large and complicated and expensive these circuits would have to be
plus all the extra stuff required power them and to cool them down
so it comes down to practicality
simplifying the system to base 2 allows for a much simpler build
miniaturalization and cost reduction down to personal computers
also increases in precision
were only possible due to the binary system
btw analogue computers did exist for a while
but these limitations retired them
they used to look like this

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