Imitation quantum computing

[Incendia]

Excuse the obscure title...I just couldn't think of what to call it.

 

Anyways, In quantum computers you can have 1, 0 and 1 & 0. This means less calculations are needed speeding stuff up.

 

Why can't a third character be programmed in that has a value of both 1 and 0. Hence you won't need the expensive and technically quantum stuff.

I used 2 as an example. You could have an entirely new character or a -1 or even a letter. Depends on what the programmer who does it first decides.

 

Opinions on my idea?

Would it work?

 

Perhaps it won't be as fast a real quantum computer but if I am not typing total nonsense it could speed up computers by making them require less calculations.

Edited May 29, 2011 by Incendia

[pwagen]

If I'm not mistaken, the beauty of it isn't that a quantum computer can have both 1, 0 and 0&1, but that it can have it at the same time.

 

The reason we don't make computers that can differentiate between, say, 0, 1, 2 and 3, is that such a computer would be both expensive and difficult to build. As it is, we only need to separate 0 and 1 by using either high current or low current, which is quite simple. And cheap.

[John Cuthber]

The thing you have missed is that "1 & 0" isn't a third value, it's a superposition of 0 and 1 at the same time.

[Incendia]

@pwagen: I think you've misunderstood.

@John Cuthber: I know that in a real quantum computer it would be both 1 & 0 at the same time without being another value, but would adding a third value that was equal to both 1 & 0 speed up computers anyway?