It has two digits — 0 and 1 — and when it passes 1, it has to add 1 to the front and cycle back through. In other words, as strange as it may seem, one is 1, and two is 10. Using binary ...

Here is the story. Binary arithmetic was the idea of the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), in the late 1670s, a few years after he had invented the calculus. Leibniz quickly ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A binary digit, or bit, is the smallest unit of data in computing. All data (music, images, software) processed by a ...