I can appear as three or four, yet my heart is always one. What am I?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Consider how numbers are represented in computers.
Answer
A binary number
Explanation
A binary number uses only two digits, 0 and 1, representing data in computing.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A binary number.
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