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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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“binary digits” is an oxymoron. “Digit” implies decimal counting.

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Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
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Bigit

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Poach@lemmy.world
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Is that why all digital computers use binary?

This may actually be an example of where a word’s meaning had changed over time. Not sure of the etymology.

Some random dictionary has “one of the elements that combine to form numbers in a system other than the decimal system” as one of the definitions.

I spent way too long trying to prove something there…

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bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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I think it’s because they use discrete numbers instead of varying voltages in analog systems. There have been digital computers built that use base 3.

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