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 ...

It’s hard to believe today, but in the 1940s, the earliest computer technicians actually worked at the bit level. If a computer made a mistake and the technician determined it wasn’t from a burned-out ...

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