A bright idea. Nishiyama, Y. +plus Magazine, September, 2005.
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A light switch is a simple object: it's either on or off. But this simple binary system is enough to illustrate Boolean algebra, on which all modern computers are based. Yutaka Nishiyama illuminates the connection between light bulbs, logic and binary arithmetic.
@article{nishiyama_bright_2005,
	title = {A bright idea},
	url = {http://plus.maths.org/issue36/features/nishiyama/},
	abstract = {A light switch is a simple object: it's either on or off. But this simple binary system is enough to illustrate Boolean algebra, on which all modern computers are based. Yutaka Nishiyama illuminates the connection between light bulbs, logic and binary arithmetic.},
	number = {36},
	journal = {+plus Magazine},
	author = {Nishiyama, Yutaka},
	editor = {Project, Millennium M.},
	month = sep,
	year = {2005},
	keywords = {CULike, didctica-lgica, teaching-logic},
}

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