Place Value: It’s a Binary World page 4
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As a result of the success in the application of digital computers and related technologies in real life, today the overwhelming majority of numeric information gathering, processing as storage in the world is not done in the decimal, base-10 system, but in the binary, Base-2 system.
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From animated greeting cards in the mail, to the cashier scanning items at the grocery store, smarter appliances at home, large industrial, transportation, and commercial control systems, advanced research and development facilities at science, government and industry laboratories, they are all powered by binary, base-2 computers and systems. These computers and systems provide massive gains in efficiency and speed that translation into the decimal system is done only when displaying quantity expressions for human communication.
In spite of the importance and relative simplicity of the binary system, the topic of seems mostly absent from K-12 curricula. Why is this?