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How is calculating in binary easier? I think it's easier to do relatively complex calculations in base10/12 in our head than to write an immense amount of numbe
by jotm 13y ago
How is calculating in binary easier? I think it's easier to do relatively complex calculations in base10/12 in our head than to write an immense amount of numbers down then trying to work with them further. Wouldn't one page of calculations turn into ten? Or maybe I'm too tired to think straight...
- bediger4000 13y agoYou only have to remember 3 facts for addition: 0+0 = 0, 1+0 = 1 and 1+1 = 10. The last is the only carry situation, further simplifying memorization. THe same thing holds for subtraction, multiplication and division, very few facts to memorize. I'm guessing that Polynesian civilizations didn't deal with millions and millions of any particular item, so that they rarely did a one page calculation. Indeed, the article claims that "80" is a large number for the ancient Mangarevans. But this article totally misses out on the real issue - who owns the Intellectual Property of Binary Math? Previously, we thought it was Leibniz, and clearly, we've been paying his heirs for the use of their Intellectual Property, but now we have to trace down the descendants of these fantasically Inventive Mangarevans, and give them the Lion's Share of the money previously given to the (now know to be false) owners of Binary Math Intellectual Property.
- grannyg00se 13y agoIt wasn't pure binary. It was a decimal system with three large binary steps superimposed.