Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t be said when we’re asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it’s 144).

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Binary multiplication can be attained in a similar fashion to multiplying decimal values. Using the long multiplication method, like for example by multiplying each digit in turn, and then adding the ...

Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

In positional systems, as mentioned earlier, the number represented is multiplied by the base each time you move to the left of a position and is always divided by the base each time you move to the ...

As I told my class on Thursday, the theme of the first week of our math history course was “easy algebra is hard in base 60.” We started the semester in ancient Mesopotamia, trying to understand ...