Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up on the familiar 1s-and-0s binary system used in conventional computers. By switching to a novel five-state system, you will ...

Binary, or base two, is the number system that ... Another example: 361 would be "four eighties, forty, one": 361 = 4 x 80 + 40 + 1. The big advantage of this hybrid system is that much of ...