In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

Mangareva Island Wikimedia Commons Binary, or base two, is the number system that computer systems use, as opposed to the decimal, or base ten, system used in our day-to-day lives.

Example of a decimal number system Decimal numbers must be converted into their binary equivalent before a computer can use them. The decimal system has ten digits - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.