The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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 technology ...

Binary code is the language of computers and electronic devices. The use of binary numbers date back to ancient Egypt, but it was 17th-century philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, ...

Philosophy East and West, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 59-90 (32 pages) The Yijing/Binary System Episode involved Leibniz' discovery of a de facto representation of the binary number system in the ...