This was the week that I accidentally taught my nearly ten-year-old son binary. And I didn’t do it on purpose, I swear. It all started innocently enough. He had a week vacation, and on one of those ...

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero (0) that ...

Have you ever felt the urge to make your own private binary format for use in Linux? Perhaps you have looked at creating the smallest possible binary when compiling a project, and felt disgusted with ...

Computers use coding to get instructions and do the things they do. Have you ever seen the inside of a computer? Wires carry information through the machine in the form of electricity. The two options ...

Binary is a number system that only uses two digits, \(0\) and \(1\). It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is ...

The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues an ...