Its basic operations, AND, OR and NOT, could form simple statements with a binary property — they were either true or false — and they could be combined and stacked into the most complex of ...

His latest installment is an article describing the strange implementation of the IBM 1401’s qui-binary arithmetic.

The video walks you through the essentials here, how binary represents decimal, how that’s represented in hexadecimal, and why exactly computers need all that to begin with.

The use of binary numbers date back to ancient Egypt, but it was 17th-century philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who created the current binary number system used today.

Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz ...

Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz.