I hacked a ‘binary calculator’ together out of logic chips when I was 11 years old. It’s really nothing practical or interesting to anyone who considers themselves a ‘hacker’.

If you’re going to learn digital logic, why not aim high? That’s what [Easton] and his friend did when they built a clock using only 4000-series logic chips. On a breadboard, no less. For a 1 ...

Excess-3 Binary Logic To perform arithmetic operations on the numbers keyed into the calculator, each individual number was converted into a 4-digit binary (1s and 0s) form known as excess-3 (XS-3).

Huawei Technologies has applied for a patent in “ternary logic”, an alternative to binary computing logic first explored in the former Soviet Union, in hopes that it could improve the design ...

He was also an inventor, coming up with variations of the mechanical calculator. He then invented the modern binary number system in 1689 as a way to convert verbal logic statements into ...