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Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

Well, with Windows, there's a third bit. Microsoft introduced trinary a long time ago. Concept of binary: zero and non-zero
Concept of trinary: zero, positive and negative
And you bet... using trinary, more than four cores is possible.

RAP,
zero, positive, and negative can all be done with binary code.

all values windows uses converts to binary code to be used by the processor.

in binary there are different ways to classify a negative number. and when you are distinguishing between negative and positive, its called signed binary.

i would give some examples, but my knowledge of signed binary is a bit rusty


but i guess you have some windows programming experience?
lots of times, microsoft code gives 0 as a success, and a negative number as a failure.
but although while programming we see these as signed decimal numbers, these numbers are really binary numbers, and thats what the hardware sees.