Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math 600 Years Ago | Sciences & Technology | Scoop.it

"How old is the binary number system? Perhaps far older than the invention of computers or even the invention of binary math in the West. The residents of a tiny Polynesian island may have been doing calculations in binary—a number system with only two digits—centuries before it was described by Gottfried Leibniz, the co-inventor of calculus, in 1703..."