Binary math was used by Polynesians 300 years earlier than Europeans
German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is credit with determining binary arithmetic in the early 1700s . Unfortunately for his legacy , it seem that the Polynesians beat him by about 300 year . This annunciation comes from Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller of the University of Auckland , and their termination were print in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . While conventional mathematics uses a base 10 numbering system , binary uses groundwork 2 ....