nor-gate
The NOR Gate: How It Built Apollo and Powers Modern Logic
TL;DR: The NOR gate outputs 1 only when all inputs are 0 (). Like NAND it is functionally complete — every Boolean function can be built from NOR alone. The...
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computing-history
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binary
The 3,500-Year Journey of Binary, From Ancient Egypt to Now
TL;DR: Binary representation predates the computer by 3,500 years. Egyptian scribes used a shift-and-add multiplication algorithm, the I Ching encoded a 6-bit cosmology, and Pingala's Chandaḥśāstra gave the first explicit...