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The AI Mod on Instagram: "Why do computers use binary — just 0s and 1s — instead of a faster trinary system with 0, 1, and 2? 🤔 Harvard computer scientist David J. Malan breaks it down perfectly 👇 Binary isn’t about being old-fashioned — it’s about being simple, reliable, and stable. Computers run on electricity, and it’s far easier to detect whether a signal is on or off (0 volts or 3 volts) than to measure uncertain middle states like 1.5 volts. Trinary could be more efficient in theory, but