The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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China has started mass production of the world’s first non-binary chips, adding this new technology to important industries like aviation and manufacturing. Spearheaded by Professor Li Hongge and his ...

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The film follows a yellow-bellied fore flusher who migrates from Ireland to the south of France. Before his journey, he meticulously plans his route and learns to divide distances into equal parts.

You may know that computers use binary code to represent, well … everything. Everything stored on your computer’s disk or solid-state drive is stored in binary form, a sequence of zeros and ones. All ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

Ever wondered how computers communicate and process information? They use the binary number system, a base-2 numeral system that consists of only two digits: 0 and 1. Decoding binary numbers might ...