Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, the great mathematician and pioneer of computer science and binary number calculations. © University of Massachusetts Lowell Binary ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Nowadays, there is a universe of open-source projects consisting of code, libraries and ...

To compare two sets of digital data in order to determine if they are 100% identical. Performed by a utility program, binary compares are often required when programmers create or modify apps and need ...

A binary option for XML, which is a text-based format. Binary versions of XML take up less space, and, more importantly, requests and responses take less network bandwidth. For example, a TV program ...