Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

who invented Binary Numbers?

  1. Gottfried Leibnitz

  2. Pingala.

  3. Aryabhata

  4. Laplace
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Explanation

Pingala (c. 3rd century BCE) used binary numbers (long and short syllables) in his Chandaḥśāstra to represent and classify poetic meters. His system represents the earliest known description of a binary numeral system.

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