In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

Binary Floating Point Floating point allows very small fractions and very large numbers to be maintained and calculated quickly. Both the mantissa (significant digits) and the exponent (power to ...

COMMON BINARY STRUCTURES Largest Total Values Decimal Value Bits (Including 0) (All 1 Bits) 4 16 16-1 15 8 256 256-1 255 16 64K (kilo) 64K-1 65,535 ...

But for numbers 20 through 80, they used a binary system, with separate, one-word terms for 20, 40 and 80. For really large numbers, they used powers of 10 up to at least 10 million.

But for numbers 20 through 80, they used a binary system, with separate, one-word terms for 20, 40 and 80. For really large numbers, they used powers of 10 up to at least 10 million.

They find that the former Mangarevans combined base-10 representation with a binary system. They had number words for 1 to 10, and then for 10 multiplied by several powers of 2.