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Turning human thought into digital math

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Michael Hooten
Nov 25, 2024
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Computers work with digital logic, but we (humans) do not. We have developed so many tools to deal with this that we forget how difficult the underlying problem really is. 

Let’s start with a simple example: turning binary into any other number format. If we want something simple like …

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