The Bank of England slipped a hidden binary code in the design of the new £50 bill which features computer pioneer Alan Turing. Here's how to decipher it.

To combat this, the new £1 coin sports a number of security features, including the secret binary code. The new £1 coin is a dodecagon, and its 12 sides make it more difficult to forge and more ...

Binary code is the perfect place to start — it's conceptually simple but practically complex, and to computers, it's everything. Binary is the power behind the 4K YouTube video you're watching ...

As well as the code, the note includes a table and formulae from a vital paper that was written in 1936 by Turing. The concept of a machine that could read binary tape like that shown in the note ...

It is simple to convert candidate_number to its binary representation, as follows:. candidate = 1 << (candidate_number - 1). Checking if a candidate is present in the set. As mentioned above, the set ...