Geniuses Are Everywhere (Bonus Update 10 for Monthly Votes)

Jiang Yan Hai immediately ran diagnostics on the entire program and quickly discovered that the error warning had appeared because his program could not scan the underlying data.

After hesitating for a moment, he simply had Er Dan connect to the current computer while he continued operating it and checking things himself.

A while later, Jiang Yan Hai was genuinely stunned. He looked up at Professor Wu and said, "Professor Wu, you changed the underlying machine language architecture?"

"It would be more accurate to say we applied part of it." Professor Wu Min smiled. "But making changes in this area is still very difficult, because it does not only involve software; it also involves hardware. So this portion of the hardware was specially designed and manufactured by us, mainly for this program."

Jiang Yan Hai was somewhat amazed. As everyone knew, computer machine language consisted of 0s and 1s, and all programming was completed on the basis of these two binary values.

That was because binary language executed quickly, ran fast, and consumed few resources.

However, programming with it was extremely cumbersome. After all, countless instructions had to be converted into 0s and 1s. Another reason for using it was that the silicon wafers currently used by humanity were inside the chips.

They only needed one true state and one false state to represent everything. This made chip structures simple. Modern chips mainly used logic circuits—that was, switches being connected or disconnected—to represent the two numbers.

In other words, 0s and 1s were used not only because they were simple, but also because of hardware limitations. To make changes directly at the machine-language level, one could only redesign the chips.

Jiang Yan Hai did not know whether anyone else could accomplish that, but Professor Wu Min and the others had