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# How I think **unary** could work Note: This is just me going on a brain gander. Unary only has one digit, you might be led to think that this would be `0`, but that would make unary useless so `1` is used instead. Here is a comparison of unary to binary:
Binary:
32 16 8 4 2 1 . 1/2 1/4 1/8
Unary:
1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1/1 1/1 1/1
Also yes, binary can have a fractional part. It's just that there's not really a use case for it as computers can't do that. Zero is represented as the empty string ``. It's just tally marks with extra weirdness. ## Unary operations ### Addition `1 + 1 = 11` `11 + 1 = 111` `111 + 11 = 11111` ### Subtraction `111 - 1 = 11` `1 - 1 =` `1 - 111 = -11` ### Multiplication `11 × 1 = 11` `111 × 11 = 111 + 111 = 111111` `111 × 11 = 11 + 11 + 11 = 111111` ### Division `11 / 1 = 11` `1111 / 11 = 11`