How do you count like a computer? Neil deGrasse Tyson examines our base ten number system and teaches Chuck different ways to count… or at least tries to. Is our counting system biased?

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The conversion of a decimal number to its base 8 equivalent is started by the repeated division method. Divide the base 10 number by 8 and extract the remainders. The first remainder will be the LSD, ...