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There is no record of when binary was first used. Given that the ancient Mesopotamian architects were using sexagesimal (base 60) they would have already known about binary encodings. However, it wasn't until India introduced the positional notation system that we use today (the Hindu-Arabic system) that we finally had a method of notating all bases in a common and consistent format. By the time Babbage invented the earliest computers, binary encoding was already a well-established method of digitising data to be processed by a machine.

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