When Alan Turing submitted his paper On Computable Numbers to the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society on this day, May 28, in 1936, he could not have guessed that it would lead not only to ...

Binary is a number system that only uses two digits, 0 and 1. It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is ...

When can ones and zeros add up to any number you like? When you're a computer. Read what Julie has to say about the world's first computers below... Computers are tools that help you to do ...

Previous DNA computer models have been able to calculate square roots with up to 4-bit binary numbers, says the team, led by researcher Chunlei Guo, in the paper's abstract.

Scientists from the Flatiron Institute and New York University developed a method by which a classical computer can outperform a quantum system on specific benchmarks.