Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 11:48 in Mathematics & Economics

Base-2 system helped to simplify calculations centuries before Europeans rediscovered it.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.14380

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