<div dir="auto">My brief scan of the wiki for qubit leads me to believe it's still 0 or 1, but with probabilities for each value, so it not just a "not 0 and not 1"</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 21:25 David Jackson via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm trying to understand how superposition alters representing state.<div><br></div><div>I was thinking we're talking it's 3**n where n is the length of the word length.</div><div>Where each bit is either "on" "off" or both "on and off" (superposition). So unless I'm wrong, that would be a "trinary" language to represent state?</div><div><br></div><div>I've read many articles and watched many YouTubes, but I'm just trying to understand the basic difference between a qubit and a bit in terms of representing state. I understand that the superposition allows for simultaneous state representation, but doesn't that still limit you to a "trinary" representation of state? 3**n ??</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance!</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div>
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