binary number system
- n a positional system of numeration that uses binary digits and a radix of two
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- Math Surprise: Remote Islanders Invented Binary Number System
The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The counting scheme, described today (Dec. 16) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses both decimal and binary numbers, so it isn't a complete binary system from zero to ...
Dec. 16, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math
sciencehabit writes "How old is the binary number system? Perhaps far older than the invention of binary math in the West. The residents of a tiny Polynesian island may have been doing calculations in binary—a number system with only two digits—centuries before it was described by Gottfried Leibniz, the co-inventor of calculus, in 1703." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Dec. 16, 2013 - Slashdot