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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"binary digits" is an oxymoron. "Digit" implies decimal counting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Bigit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.