[ale] Qubit vs bit

[Pete Hardie]

My  brief scan of the wiki for qubit leads me to believe it's still 0 or 1,
but with probabilities for each value, so it not just a "not 0 and not 1"

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 21:25 David Jackson via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to understand how superposition alters representing state.
>
> I was thinking we're talking it's 3**n  where n is the length of the word
> length.
> Where each bit is either "on" "off" or both "on and off" (superposition).
> So unless I'm wrong, that would be a "trinary" language to represent state?
>
> I've read many articles and watched many YouTubes, but I'm just trying to
> understand the basic difference between a qubit and a bit in terms of
> representing state.  I understand that the superposition allows for
> simultaneous state representation, but doesn't that still limit you to a
> "trinary" representation of state?  3**n  ??
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dave
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