Editing Binary number (section)

===Other cultures===
The residents of the island of [[Mangareva]] in [[French Polynesia]] were using a hybrid binary-[[decimal]] system before 1450.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bender|first1=Andrea|last2=Beller|first2=Sieghard|title=Mangarevan invention of binary steps for easier calculation|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=111|issue=4|date=16 December 2013|doi=10.1073/pnas.1309160110|pages=1322–1327|pmid=24344278|pmc=3910603|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[Slit drum]]s with binary tones are used to encode messages across Africa and Asia.<ref name="scientific"/>
Sets of binary combinations similar to the ''I Ching'' have also been used in traditional African divination systems, such as [[Ifá]] among others, as well as in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] Western [[geomancy]]. The majority of [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Indigenous Australian languages]] use a base-2 system.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bowern |first1=Claire |last2=Zentz |first2=Jason |date=2012 |title=Diversity in the Numeral Systems of Australian Languages |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23621076 |journal=Anthropological Linguistics |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=133–160 |jstor=23621076 |issn=0003-5483}}</ref>