Sunday, August 14, 2011

How much would it affect the computer field if a workable base 9 system were developed instead of binary?

This seems to me the return of 5th generation Fuzzy Logic and n-level computers. The Yahoo founder teams have some experience in AI and know it well, knowledge can be most reliably interpreted with two level binary states. Multilevel though do carry more information, brings down the reliability of systems essential to the MTBF of ALUs, CPUs and the whole notion of building blocks. I would bet even if one were to build it certainly will be base 8 or 16 and even base 10(decimal) or for that matter base 9 systems are pretty much ruled out. If my understanding is correct please refer to a book on 5th generation almost a decade back when Japanese MITI (ministry) put their bet on 5th generation AI, only to find that even a yellow page can become hit like Yahoo and the content is king, not technology. Thus difficult to see why base 9, when knowledge in the text, music(sound) and graphics/video can pay off organizing them innovatively. Its a matter of market and even iPhone and Apple is realizing that R&D costs curtail innovation. Drug companies too are constrained by same reason else every one would rush to provide drugs for 40,000 target deseases based on gene sequence computations, instead of choosing block buster diseases and targets. Unless you can come with reasons why base 9 or if vedic math has some magical capability, this is same logic why not use a language called "Sanskrit" whose grammer even beats the Compiler formal verbs and does great if one were to build sound based computer. So may be some expert on base 9 needs to address this and pitch it to VCs and see what they think.

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