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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoWouldn’t noise in the circuit mean it’d only be reliable to certain level of precision, anyway?
minus-squareChadus_Maximus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 months agoI mean, every irrational number used in computation is reliable to a certain level of precision. Just because the current (heh) methods aren’t precise enough doesn’t mean they’ll never be.
minus-squareanton@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoYou can always increase the precision of a computation, analog signals are limited by quantum physics.
Wouldn’t noise in the circuit mean it’d only be reliable to certain level of precision, anyway?
I mean, every irrational number used in computation is reliable to a certain level of precision. Just because the current (heh) methods aren’t precise enough doesn’t mean they’ll never be.
You can always increase the precision of a computation, analog signals are limited by quantum physics.