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The modern binary number system, the basis for binary code, is an invention by Gottfried Leibniz in 1689 and appears in his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire (English: Explanation of the Binary Arithmetic) which uses only the characters 1 and 0, and some remarks on its usefulness. Leibniz's system uses 0 and 1, like the modern ...
A binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, a method for representing numbers that uses only two symbols for the ...
Ermal Cleon "Ernie" Fraze [1] (September 16, 1913 – October 26, 1989) was an American engineer who invented the pull-tab opener used in beverage cans. [ 1 ] Early life
The City of Ohio became an independent municipality on March 3, 1836, splitting from Brooklyn Township. The city grew from a population of 2,400 people in the early ...
Binary code, the representation of text and data using only the digits 1 and 0; Bit, or binary digit, the basic unit of information in computers; Binary file, composed of something other than human-readable text Executable, a type of binary file that contains machine code for the computer to execute
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting.
The binary prefixes, as defined by IEC 80000-13, are incorporated into ISO 80000-1, including a note that "SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10, and should not be used for powers of 2." [133] In ISO 80000-1, the application of the binary prefixes is not limited to computer technology. For example, 1 KiHz = 1024 Hz.
The competitor to IBM was the digital electronic computer NCR3566, developed in NCR, Dayton, Ohio by Joseph Desch and Robert Mumma in the period April 1939 - August 1939. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] The IBM and NCR machines were decimal, executing addition and subtraction in binary position code.