Woodwork hacker Matthias Wandel has built this amazing binary marble adding machine. The device can store the binary states of six bits, and use them to add numbers from one to 63. It works with ...

Derivative contracts were born because of people’s innate desire to circumvent uncertainty. A derivative contract is a contract drawn up between two parties, the price of which is derived based on an ...

Warning! This piece contains spoilers for The Marvels mid-credits scene. It’s been an uneven year for Marvel movies and shows, with the unimpressive arrival of Ant-Man: Quantumania and the lackluster ...

My last column introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In particular, we considered unsigned versus 10s-complement versions of BCD numbers. In this column we are ...

Unlike the sun, most stars are part of a binary pair. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A binary star is a system of two ...