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> "can you elaborate on why that is?"

Might as-well suggest we use a single letter, instead of 26.



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The first number is zero, right? Then the first letter of the alphabet is well its hard to show because it doesn't print. It's just an empty set, nothing, a stop bit. We actually do use only 1 bit in digital cpus, but a weird mix of analogue in broad band transmission. I wonder why cpus don't use ternary or whatever. But I wonder why asynchronous CPUs didn't take off, so don't mind me, just being bored.


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