Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down ... to text using the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). The ASCII chart assigns a character to each value ...

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However, for those important tribute goods - turtles, fish, coconuts, octopuses, and breadfruit - the Mangarevans developed a special counting system, based partially on binary. This system was ...