Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero (0) that ...

Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!” Any code that uses just two symbols to represent information is considered binary ...

Flip digit clocks are a prized piece of consumer electrical ephemera, providing as they do a digital display without significant electronics. Making your own flip digit display involves some drudgery ...

Editor's Note: See also the Follow-on Article that describes how to generate Gray Codes for non-power-of-2 sequences. Note that the correct grammar and spelling for Gray codes is “Gray” (not “gray”, ...

Abstract: Signed-binary representations of integer k with symmetric digit set /spl Dscr//sub s/ - {-(2/sup w/ - 1 ),-(2/sup w/-3),... ,-1,0,1,... ,2/sup w/ - 3,2/sup ...