Jia Xiu had the dazed feeling that he might have stolen Ram's traits recently and somehow forgotten about it.
First, he had discovered bugs capable of splitting magic power into four, answering the long-standing question of why Paula's faction represented magic in base four.
Then he discovered magical conductive material capable of controlling whether discrete magic power could pass through.
Was this the legendary kind of lucky research—the best kind of research?
Jia Xiu stared at that utterly ordinary rod of magical conductive material, unable to calm himself for a while.
Having two controllable states—conducting and non-conducting—meant that basic logical operations could be constructed. With basic logical operations, they could be layered and combined to perform more complex operations. Go deeper still, and it could process data and execute instructions.
A true computer—a computer whose functions extended beyond mere calculation—could take shape.
Of course, its current state was nowhere near enough. First, the material transmitted magic power far too slowly. Second, controlling whether it conducted was also too slow; enchanting took time.
That meant that if he truly made a computer this way, even calculating the addition or subtraction of three-digit numbers might take several minutes. It would be worse than a mechanical one.
But those were problems that could be optimized away. There was more than one type of magical conductive material—on the contrary, there were far too many, each with different properties. Since rune stones and enchantments were what caused this controllable conductive state to appear, other materials should work too.
And as for enchanting efficiency, a little research should improve that as well.
Once his excitement had settled somewhat and his clever intellect reclaimed the high ground, Jia Xiu discovered the greatest problem.
Wait, conducting and non-conducting were only two states. That made it binary again, which