Fascinating! I was unaware of Thomas Harriot. If you're interested in Leibniz and his invention of binary, I highly recommend Wolfram's post on that: https://w

Fascinating! I was unaware of Thomas Harriot. If you're interested in Leibniz and his invention of binary, I highly recommend Wolfram's post on that: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfried-leibniz/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-g... I have a project on the backburner to create a "Handwriting Simulator", that you could give a task/equation to, and have it generate animations of performing that calculation as a human would with a pen and paper according to a named writing system (binary, roman numerals, hindu-arabic, et cetera). I would like to compare and contrast the efficiency of handwriting systems, and perhaps explore if there are some potential new ones yet to be invented. I've come full circle to the opinion that I've been undervaluing 2D handwritten notations as tools for thought. If anyone has any pointers I'd appreciate it! This reminds me of that, because I'd expect binary notation by hand to be extremely inefficient compared to other systems, so there was little/no value for it until logic machines.