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 ...

Counting up in binary turns out to be more useful than ... So if we’ve got a source of twelve octaved square waves, let’s take some and mix them together. Simply take three high-value ...

If you thought you could only count to 10 using your fingers, think again. Using the binary system, you can quickly count into the tens of thousands. In this video from the TED-Ed YouTube channel ...

The counting scheme, described today (Dec. 16) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses both decimal and binary numbers ... just 7 square miles (18 square kilometers ...