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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by rmah on Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:03PM (#13515570)
This is less like 32bit to 64bit and more like moving from binary to trinary logic.
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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by lorenzhs on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:02PM (#13516242)
Well binary and ternary number systems can express the same numbers, they just do it in a different way. I don't think there's a good computer analogy here.
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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by jcoffland on Sunday January 29, 2017 @02:09PM (#13515947)
Even more like a move from 4bit to 6bit logic.
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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by mikeash on Sunday January 29, 2017 @02:11PM (#13515956)
Which also wouldn't do anything remarkable.
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