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This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than you ...

But how does the computer make sense out of the binary numbers represented by its open and closed switches? At the heart of the answer is the work of two other gifted Englishmen.

Warnings Excel will only produce binary numbers with up to 10 bits. This means that it can only convert decimal numbers greater than -513 and less than 512.

Teaching and storytelling, Yang discovered, turn out to be fraternal twins. Take a peek at a piece of Yang’s master’s thesis: Factoring with Mr. Yang and Mosley the Alien. Likewise, in "Secret Coders" ...

Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up on the familiar 1s-and-0s binary system used in conventional computers. By switching to a novel five-state system, you will ...

Previous DNA computer models have been able to calculate square roots with up to 4-bit binary numbers, says the team, led by researcher Chunlei Guo, in the paper's abstract.

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 ...

Scientists from the Flatiron Institute and New York University developed a method by which a classical computer can outperform a quantum system on specific benchmarks.