What's always interested me is that the commonly used fractions -- 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so on -- are inherently binary. Much more up-to-date than the decimal system, in which we are just counting on our fingers!

Edited to add: Wouldn't it have been easier to learn programming if we had only eight digits?

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