Category: educational

  • I Love Binary Numbers!

    Most people haven’t thought very hard about numbers. I’ve always loved numbers. In the 5th grade, Mrs. Lamberson explained numbering systems to us. She informed us that the numbers we’re used to seeing are in the “base 10” numbering system. “Base” means the base of an exponential function. Each position in the number tells you…

  • CAPTCHA!

    You may not know what they’re called, but you’ve seen and had to solve a CAPTCHA. The word CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” You see, some people like to write programs to automatically access services across the Internet that the operators of those services would rather…