LordSnarfington t1_j9yjjkh wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:41 PM

Reply to comment by almightygarlicdoggo in The only thing binary is the mathematical concept of one and zero, the rest is a spectrum. by pikknz

So this may be semantics but couldn't you say a door is partly open? There seems to some non-binary choice involved.

Would open or not open work?

almightygarlicdoggo t1_j9ykc3t wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:48 PM

That depends on the problem domain, for example if you're flying in a commercial plane, do you care how much the door is opened, or whether it's opened/closed? The safety systems just check whether it's opened or not to raise an alarm, so for the safety systems, the door is a binary system