Binary+Numbers

=Binary Numbers and How they Relate to Decimal Numbers=

===Forget all this introductory text and just click on Vi Hart's [|Binary Finger Dancing] Video at youtube :-)===

Preface starting back in England in 1854: (from Wikipedia)
===**In 1854, [|British] mathematician [|George Boole] published a landmark paper detailing an [|algebraic] system of [|logic] that would become known as [|Boolean algebra]. His logical calculus was to become instrumental in the design of digital electronic circuitry. [|[9]] **===

Their Complex Number Computer, completed January 8, 1940, was able to calculate [|complex numbers].
===In a demonstration to the [|American Mathematical Society] conference at [|Dartmouth College] on September 11, 1940, Stibitz was able to send the Complex Number Calculator remote commands over telephone lines by a [|teletype] .===

It was the first computing machine ever used remotely over a phone line.
===Some participants of the conference who witnessed the demonstration were [|John von Neumann], [|John Mauchly] and [|Norbert Wiener] , who wrote about it in his memoirs. [|[12]][|[13]][|[14]] ===