I think that, when the ternary logic components take the place of the binary logic ones , the minds of the students, researchers and the industrials must change. Is this true? I'm looking forward to seeing this new technology on markets.
I wonder about what components do you ask. Maybe you use the term "logic" in a very narrow sense (design of computing devices) and the components are processors, memories, and so on. It is not clear that this technological change will come soon, but it is possible. However, I doubt about a very big impact on the human way of thinking. Politicians, managers, engineers, researchers and students do not think binarily. They have in fact some many scales with subtle shadows of grey, in different directions, and the scales intersect or not. This fact (the complicated behavior of TRUTH in every-day life) is a big obstacle in learning the classical mathematical logic with two truth values, and also for other many-valued logics. A new acceleration of the computing devices will not have also drammatic impacts, because we've got already used with this phenomenon. With our multitude of grey truth scales, we are much more adaptive as we expect (as we think of ourselves).
Dear MIHAI;
My question is clearly devoted to the technology of the future computers. I believe that the human reasoning is fuzzy. Every one uses a qualitative and subjective judgment, but the thinking range is the same.
The binary devices use the simplest electronic components to implement logic functions by their truth tables. The same reasoning for the ternary devices seems to be more complicated but more efficient in term of information coding.
Dear Omar, form a logical point of view it is not at all certain that tertiary logic will replace binary logic. However - which is your main concern - it is quite probable that in tech computers it might indeed replace binary logic.
As for the presence of this logic in the markets, I would not think it will happy very soon...
The recent interesting technological results on the information coding using nano components seems to be the straight forward way to the future (ternary or multileveled) computers technology.
Some interesting papers argue this in their studies.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY, VOL. 13, NO. 4, JULY 2014 695
Design and Evaluation of Multiple Valued Logic Gates Using Pseudo N-Type Carbon Nanotube FETs by Jinghang Liang, Linbin Chen, Jie Han, Member, IEEE, and Fabrizio Lombardi, Fellow, IEEE
I see the ternary computer as the advent of an age that recognizes the limits of human knowledge and seeks to admit a third category of results-indeterminacy.Aside from the binary:true/false. That having said, to move beyond three valued logic may be just adding more redundancies or introducing more gradations to decisions. So in the interest of parsimony ternary is sufficient. Not so sure whether a ternary computer is a scaled-down version of a quantum computer, which seems to take advantage of dual states. Would a dual state be more productive than an indeterminate state?
Perhaps for practical purposes dual/superimposed states tend to broaden the decision and solution spaces. Making some currently intractable problems, computable. While a ternary logic that admits indeterminacy is useful in narrowing the search space of solutions, in the sense of giving a tentative feel to certain applications. Making it ultimately more appealing to conceptualizers and theoreticians. So at the end of the day it will depend on whether practical men or idealistic men hold sway of our world.
Binary is a good way to express Yes and No while ternary would be a good way to express More (Yes), Less (No) and and also Equal in one go. I suppose for mathematical purposes Ternary Logic would be better.
Best Regards Omar Bouattane
Dear Osama;
Thank you for your replay;
Ternary logic (TL) is going deeper than binary representiion; the actual TL electronic components and the corresponding arithmetic circuits are growing to become more usefull in the high performance computation devices.
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