In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

The formulation of the binary number system essentially laid the groundwork for digital circuitry, computers, and the field of computer science, as we know it in today’s technologically-advanced ...

But other number systems exist, and they are as varied as the cultures they belong to. The Alaskan Inuit language, known as Iñupiaq, uses an oral counting system built around the human body.