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Today we're going to talk about a fundamental part of all modern computers. The thing that basically everything else uses - the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (or the ALU).

The Digi-Comp II is a great way to show the process of binary arithmetic in a computer and we were wondering why there aren’t any educational toys like the Digi-Comp II out today.

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign ...

These so-called “kit” computers performed only basic functions, such as binary arithmetic, and their appeal lay in adding new components or otherwise modifying the hardware.

Unlike a digital computer, the brain does not use binary logic or binary addressable memory, and it does not perform binary arithmetic.

The decimal arithmetic of a business computer is a very poor match for a binary-optimized algorithm like SHA-256. But even a computer that predates integrated circuits can implement the Bitcoin ...

Inhabitants of Mangareva island spoke the language of computers centuries before the first programmer was born, creating their own fusion of binary and decimal systems ...