A digital humanities project has uncovered evidence of binary logic systems in a 6th-century commentary on the Suryasiddhanta. By using AI to map the mathematical algorithms used for predicting planetary eclipses, researchers found that the author utilized a base-2 coding system to simplify complex celestial ratios.
This suggests that ancient Indian mathematicians had conceptualized binary sequences over a thousand years before they were formalized in the West. The discovery redefines the history of Indian mathematics and its influence on early global computational science.