Companies–both large and small–must manage increasingly large amounts of data. Within engineering departments, this might include drawings, part files, and lots of other files that represent products.

Some of us might solve crossword puzzles or Sudoko games to exercise our minds, but [Nathan Nichols] plays with exotic number systems to keep the brain cells in shape. He wrote the Hanoi C99 library ...

Decimal: The decimal system has a base (or radix) of 10. Therefore it uses ten different symbols to represent numbers. Binary: The binary system has a base of 2 and so uses only two different symbols.