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Also Known As	base-2 number system

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Figure 1: Probability of equally likely possible outcomes.

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Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician