A Million Ankles And You've Got A Laptop [Science Tattoo]

Published June 14, 2009

Benjamin writes, “The tattoo on my ankle is of a one-bit binary full adder.  It one of the most basic building blocks of all computer chips.  The flow of binary state would be from left to right as oriented in the picture.”

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