Video2015
Why Use Binary?
Computerphile
Argues that binary won because two states are the easiest to tell apart reliably in a noisy physical circuit, not because two is mathematically special.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Computer Science · Computer Architecture
Digital Logic Design
A topic within Computer Architecture, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
Reading on Digital Logic Design
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Paper1949
The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits
Claude E. Shannon
Gives a general procedure for building a switching circuit that realises any prescribed Boolean function using the fewest contacts, turning circuit minimisation into a solvable algebraic problem.
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