The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The formulation of the binary number system essentially laid the groundwork for digital circuitry, computers, and the field of computer science, as we know it in today’s technologically-advanced world ...

For geeks, there are several great holidays on the calendar. There is of course Mole Day (10/23) to commemorate Avogadro's number, which is huge (on the order of 10 23) and hugely important in physics ...