The Hidden Revolution: Why Ternary Computing Could Change Everything What if every chip powering your smartphone, laptop, and the servers hosting your favorite videos were built on fundamentally flawed foundations? What if, instead of the familiar zeros and ones that define our digital world, computers could operate using zeros, ones, and twos? This isn't science fiction—it's a reality that Soviet scientists explored in the 1950s, and their work might hold the key to revolutionizing computing as we know it. The Binary Foundation We All Know Modern computers rely entirely on binary systems, a base-two number system where each digit (or "bit") can only represent two values: 0 or 1. Think of it like billions of light switches lined up in a row—each switch is either off (0) or on (1). By arranging these switches in specific patterns at incredible speeds, computers can represent anything: numbers, letters, images, or even the video you watched last night. This ...