Interesting that Sir Francis Bacon counted in binary, which wasn't formally invented until after his death: http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/classical-

Interesting that Sir Francis Bacon counted in binary, which wasn't formally invented until after his death: http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/classical-era/baconian/ http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/classical-era/bacon... edit: Binary "invention" - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5913/Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-invents-the-Binary-System/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5913/Gottfried-Wilhel...