Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

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 ...

Spearheaded by Professor Li Hongge’s team at Beihang University in Beijing, this breakthrough overcomes fundamental barriers in traditional computing by merging binary and stochastic logic, enabling ...

FCB London’s new spot for the toilet roll brand follows a student heading to the loo with unprecedented levels of swagger Andrex’s new spot, First School Poo, is the latest in its Get Comfortable ...

Abstract: The equivalence between redundant-binary (RB) to twos-complement number conversion and twos-complement addition is shown using a simple transform between the two number domains. As a ...

Can you prove to your friends you are quicker than 98% of everybody else? On the face of it, this illusion looks like a simple one as hidden within the dozens of 02s, there is a 20 waiting to be found ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

Hyundai has recently announced its plans to manufacture “clean hydrogen” that is extracted from environmental pollutants. At the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, the South ...

“Master the intricacies of Two’s Complement, a vital concept in digital computing. Explore its definition, step-by-step calculation procedures, and real-world applications. Learn how to convert ...