binary

Ok, so this is not new news, but I find it interesting. I did a brief search on the forums and did not see a mention of it, at least not for awhile. However, I find it quite interesting that there is some evidence, mostly statistical, that our Sun might be part of a binary star with another...

I have often thought it was neat that, since we don't have 16 fingers and thereby come across hexadecimal numbers honestly, at least there is a nice, close relationship between the 2 and 10 radix systems: 10^3 ~= 2^10 (kilobytes) 2.4% difference 10^6 ~= 2^20 (megabytes)...

I'm reading Dawkins' "The Ancestor Tale". In the prologue, he notes - I'm a little fuzzy on the how and why of his reasoning. Any help?

Anyone able to expound a little on mathematical constants such as Pi, fractals, Fibonacci Numbers, and Golden Ratios, etc. By chance, I came across an article that the spirals in cone-shells conform to the Golden Mean. A quick glance into this area on the 'net covers everything from...

If a string, of finite length, of 1's and 0's is constructed randomly, what is the probability that when the string is converted in English, that it contains a real word? Forms a coherent sentence? Would these probabilities change if the string length was infinite?