His latest installment is an article describing the strange implementation of the IBM 1401’s qui-binary arithmetic. Full disclosure: It has not been confirmed that [Ken] is an “old-timer ...

Here is the story. Binary arithmetic was the idea of the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), in the late 1670s, a few years after he had invented the calculus. Leibniz quickly ...

but it’s an impressive build The Digi-Comp II is a great way to show the process of binary arithmetic in a computer and we were wondering why there aren’t any educational toys like the Digi ...

Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz.