Newsflash - Australian Government has just announced digital literacy Push. Decimal is dead, Binary is in.

Breaking news

Tommorrow at 1001 am the final stage of the digital futures bill will be signed into action by the Governor General.  australia will be the 1st country to officially adopt a binary number system and reject the out of date decimal number system which has been holding our human development back to the dark ages of accounting on our fingers.

In a move that is still shocking leaders worldwide Australia has taken the lead in this ground breaking  step towards numeracy for the masses.  Now big numbers will appear bigger, prices will inflate less, and every adult will have an increased.

Other parts of the bill include moving from the percentage to the per 1111 1111 as an alternative measure. A move designed to increase awareness of the significance of the measure.  The governments campaign ad 'if it doesn't start with a 1 - it's not a majority'

The future in numbers is here.

Some numbers to learn from tomorrow.

Our new currencies:

1 old dollar = 1 new dollar = 1111 1111 + 1c or 1 0000 0000 c

new coins: = 1c, 10c, 100c, 1000c, 1 0000c, 10 000c, 100 0000c, 1000 0000c, $1, $10

loaf of bread - Old price - $4.50 new price $10.1

iTunes 99c download = $ 0.1111 1110 or 1111 1110c

speed limits: 

0110 0100 on highways

0101 0000 on urban highways

0011 0010 on urban roads

But spare a though for physicists

Speed of light: 

10001111000011010001100000000


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