In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...

So why was binary chosen in the first place? Why weren’t computers built from Day One to work directly, at their lowest levels, on decimal numbers? (Actually, one early computer, ENIAC, was built to ...

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 ...

One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...