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Both the voltage and the threshold are probabilistic. Within a tight envelope sure. This is true even of the physical fields that comprise the transistor itself never mind the signal it’s designed to discretize. A more extreme example is a transistor hit with a stray gamma ray. When you dig deep enough there isn’t technically a Boolean anywhere, that’s a platonic construct that makes discussion of engineering convenient.
parent user3939382 1 month ago

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