Definition:Binary Notation/Historical Note

Historical Note on Binary Notation
The earliest known reference to binary notation appears to be in a Chinese book dating from approximately $3000$ B.C.E.

In Europe, binary notation was invented by.

He associated God with $1$ and nothingness with $0$, and believed that it was mystically significant that all numbers could be built from $1$-ness and $0$-ness.