I'm going to start my own country that uses binary.

Join Date: 2015-03-07
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#158355274Saturday, March 21, 2015 8:43 PM GMT

The entire number system students learn in school will be binary rather than the normal number system. Here's an example of binary numbers and how you would pronounce them: 0 = zero 1 = one 10 = twos 11 = twos-(and)-one 100 = fours 101 = fours-(and)-one 110 = fours-twos 111 = fours-twos-(and)-one 1000 = eights etc 0.1 = point-one (or one-half) 0.010101010101... = point-zero-one-repeating (or one-third) 0.101 = point-one-zero-one (or 0.625) This number system works exactly the same as our normal number system. Addition, multiplication, long division, all of these function the same so no new methods of maths would have to be introduced. However, since binary will be their "native" language, they will be super good at easily grasping computers and how they work. And they will all be super computer geniuses. Then I will have them build up a robot army and we'll take over the world.

Lhommedelheure

Join Date: 2015-03-07
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#158356052Saturday, March 21, 2015 8:54 PM GMT

I think everyone should switch to this system, actually. It's a much more sensical numerical system to use. The only complaint I could think of is that it takes more character to represent numbers. Such as, 5,000,000 would be 10,011,000,100,101,101,000,000 in binary. However, you can solve this problem simply by using scientific notation. That long binary number can be reduced to 1.01 x 10¹⁰¹¹⁰.