We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

To divide a number, an arithmetic binary shift moves all the digits in the binary number along to the right and fills the gaps after the shift with the previous MSB value. Two’s complement is better ...