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Polynesians Used Binary Long Before Europeans Motherboard (blog) A report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that hundreds of years before his time, the people of the Polynesian island Mangareva had already been successfully utilizing a binary system to manage their cultural transactions. Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago Early Polynesians used binary to ease mental arithmetic Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math |
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