Class Discussion on April the 28th.

This weeks discussion was on Number Systems and Codes. We discussed the history of the Liebniz's Language of Logic. Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz was born in Germany in 1646. In 1676, he turned his focus to mathematics. His focus was on the binary number system. Ironically, for all of his work, he failed to make the connection between the famous 1666 essay and binary to the universal language of logic he was seeking. The discovery remained hidden until George Boole uncovered it a century later after Liebniz's death. We also discussed the Decimal Number system which has a base of ten. We also learned that the term radix means base. We talked about the reset and carry operation. Finally, we talked and learned the binary number system. We also learned how to convert the decimal number system into binary number systems and binary number systems into decimal number systems.

Thanks to my Introductory Computer Mathematics Book, Second Edition, Nigel P. Cook, published by Prentice Hall, pages 198-210