Question: Write a minimum of 100 words for each question.
Provide Citation and reference for each question.
1. What would life be in a ternary world?
- From an IT perspective we live in a binary world where for a variety of mathematical and technical reasons a "quantum" of digital information takes on either a "1" or "0" state. But, what would the world be like if it were ternary and the quantum could be, say, either "+1", "0", or "-1" ?
2. Explain the purpose of encoding characters and compare ASCII with Unicode and other character sets.