The concept originates from mathematician George Boole, who in the 19th century developed an algebraic system of logic using only two values: true and false. In computer science, this binary way of ...

Interpreting math expressions is one of those things that seems simple until you get into it. The first problem is correctly lexing the input — a term that means splitting into tokens.

The solution he came up with is to use the Python interpreter as a binary math aide. We knew that you could use Python to convert between decimal, hexadecimal, and binary.