Binary is impossible to 'invent' as it is just an application of established arithmetic rules to a base 2 number system.
If i declared an arbitrary base of 73 you wouldn't say I just 'invented' septuaginta-tresinary??
People have been using base 2 for thousands of years prior to Thomas Harriot, see egyptian multiplication, and to assume that these early mathematicians didn't understand the concept of base is naive!
Binary is impossible to 'invent' as it is just an application of established arithmetic rules to a base 2 number system.
If i declared an arbitrary base of 73 you wouldn't say I just 'invented' septuaginta-tresinary??
People have been using base 2 for thousands of years prior to Thomas Harriot, see egyptian multiplication, and to assume that these early mathematicians didn't understand the concept of base is naive!
/get off my lawn