Here are the questions I set today, repeated with the solutions, and a discussion at the bottom. Both puzzles are about binary codes, which are a way of encoding information using only the binary ...

I wanna convert 4 1/2 to binary. I can convert the 4 to binary by dividing by 2 and getting this: 100. What about the 1/2? How do I convert it to binary?<BR><BR>The answer should be like 100.xxx or ...

We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--IBM's forthcoming Power6 processor can count to 10. That may not sound like anything special for a processor whose clock ticks at a rate approaching 5 billion times each second. But ...