In technology we all think in binary terms, it is either zero or one, so it helps us to make these decisions quickly.
The discovery of exoplanets in binary and triple-star systems raises the prospect that the galaxy houses many more such objects than was previously thought.
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Rather than the infinite choices of fuzzy logic, or the two in binary logic, this would have options for false, true, sort of true, sort of false, and exactly half-way.
Most stars in the galaxy are, in fact, in binary systems, and astronomers have been wondering whether the gravity of a second star nearby might disrupt a dust disc too much for planets to coalesce.
Ultra cool in 2011 will be to write the date in the sequences used in the binary system.
Thus it is that a neutron star in a binary star system gets to spend its retirement years as a millisecond radio pulsar.
Finally, because the outcomes of this debate will be so important, it is all the more disappointing that issues of cyber security are so often framed in such binary terms.
"When you have stars in a binary or triple system, and one of them burns all its hydrogen and becomes a red giant, if it's close enough it can start to dump some of its material onto that other star, " he explained to BBC News.
Secondly, the detection of multiple planets demolishes once and for all the lingering doubts of some astronomers that the single planets found around other stars are not planets at all, but small, faint components in otherwise conventional binary star systems.
Astronomers using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii discovered the four star pairs, each of which is a binary system in which two stars circle each other in less than four hours.
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He used a similar trick to memorize the precise order of 4, 140 random binary digits in half an hour.
Standard Type Ia supernovae are binary systems in which a white dwarf star draws so much matter from its companion (often a red giant) that it undergoes a kind of energy overload and detonates.
Church and his colleagues are not the first to store binary information in DNA, but they stored a tremendous amount and were able to read and write it using commercially available gene synthesis and sequencing machinery, in just a couple of weeks.
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"This is the first time we see a binary black hole in action, the smoking gun for something that will become a major gravitational wave burst in the future, " says Hasinger.
There is also an innovative binary options broker based in Cyprus that was denied U.S. regulation when sought.
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The mathematician defined the language in his 1703 paper Explanation of Binary Arithmetic.
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Five decades back programmers effectively were the software, writing math tasks in the ones and zeros of binary algebra, then setting these designs on electromagnetic switches.
Not only do you have to take control of the binary decisions (booleans in programming terms), but you have to limit the flows of information into your brain.
The company also draws on generative programming to automate some parts of code writing and on intentional programming, which captures a programmer's initial design plans as code, in a more natural form than binary algebra.
Of course, as with any binary moral judgement, implicit in our condemnation of "them" is our exaltation of "us".
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The hope is that regulators might have a means to impose losses on the private sector in a controlled way, and not just face a binary choice between bail-out or oblivion.
Our sun does not orbit another star, but roughly half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy do, as part of a binary system.
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In truth, developing a strategy for mobile devices is not a binary choice.
The black holes are separated by an estimated distance of less than a third of a light-year - cheek-to-cheek by black hole standards and significantly closer than the postulated binary system spotted by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2003.
The large shadow of Leibniz in this story traces to his convictions about the breadth with which his binary system could be applied.
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Sometimes the binary nature of external analysis makes it difficult for outsiders to hold both realities in their head at the same time.
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