We started by looking at binary as a counting system, which it is — but that's not the only thing it can do. Since it's the only thing we can use to communicate with computers, we use it to ...

There are only two digits — 1 and 0, and place-value is based on the powers of two: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and so on. Counting in binary, we start with 1, and then two is 10: 2 + 0. Three is 11: 2 + 1.

If you thought you could only count to 10 using your fingers, think again. Using the binary system, you can quickly count into the tens of thousands.I ...

Binary, or base two, is the number system that computer systems use, as opposed to the decimal, or base ten, system used in our day-to-day lives. Binary is generally associated with high ...

New Delhi, Dec. 16: A group of remote Pacific islanders may have discovered binary mathematics, a key element of modern computing machines, hundreds of years before German mathematician-philosopher ...