What is a computer glitch?
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Inside a computer. There are these boxes (or called registers) that hold a value of 1 or 0 (binary system).
Whether a computer wants to compute it moves these numbers elsewhere or changes its value.
One way a glitch can happen is if a 1 has to turn into a 0 or vice versa, but does not complete the transition. So a 1 stays a 1 when it should become a 0. Leading to incorrect data
However what we think of a glitch is usually static on a screen as if someone is hacking you. It is kinda true that its a glitch, that the pixel colors aren’t correct causing random colors showing.
Generally computers have error corrections in place to fix these. When I studied a digital system machine we had to account for possibilities that there was a glitch and that the state machine could recover.
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