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Is that why all digital computers use binary?
This may actually be an example of where a word’s meaning had changed over time. Not sure of the etymology.
Some random dictionary has “one of the elements that combine to form numbers in a system other than the decimal system” as one of the definitions.
I spent way too long trying to prove something there…