The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...

A car driving out of the Zion-Mount Carmel tunnel located in Zion National Park, Utah. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. It’s finally summer! You and your family are on a cross-country road trip. You have ...

Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up on the familiar 1s-and-0s binary system used in conventional computers. By switching to a novel five-state system, you will find it ...

An algorithm is given for constructing an alphabetic binary tree of minimum weighted path length (for short, an optimal alphabetic tree). The algorithm needs 4n 2 + 2n operations and 4n storage ...