Binary describes a system in which there are only two possible values for each digit:  0 or 1.

Binary code in computing devices is the basis for encoding/decoding systems. Among other uses, 1 refers to a flow of electricity, while 0 represents no flow of electricity. 

Symbolically, you could say the 1 represents the male gender and the 0 represents the female gender. This is the case for pretty much all reproductive creatures, animals, humans and so forth.

I see photos of people

Holding up signs stating

“no more binary”.

Not sure what this means.

Does it mean that

the symbolic notations

for a single entity and

a single different entity

are the same?

So does “no more binary” mean

that a one and a zero are

interchangeable?

 

So if a ‘1’ and a ‘0’

have equal significance,

then my owing you

$1,000.00 dollars,

does it not mean

I can the replace the ‘0’

In place of the ‘1’ and

I thus owe you 0,000,000 dollars?

Does it mean when teaching in elementary schools, that our numbering system no longer means what it means?

Not sure I understand the intentions contained herein.

Language and cultures constantly change, interact and find various expressions to help understand meaning, intention and facilitate cognitive processes necessary for existence on planet earth.

I just don’t know what the above “No more binary” means.

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Nathan B. Spooner  © 2023  Used with the permission of the author.

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