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The description of the language first appeared in ''Les Cerveaux non-humains'' ("Non-human brains"),<ref>Jean-Marc Font, Jean-Claude Quiniou, Gérard Verroust, ''Les Cerveaux non-humains : introduction à l'Informatique'', Denoël, Paris, 1970.</ref> and the system can also be found in ''Boby Lapointe'' by Huguette Long Lapointe.<ref>Huguette Long Lapointe, ''Boby Lapointe'', Encre, Paris, 1980 {{ISBN|2-86418-148-7}}</ref>
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The central observation driving this system is that sixteen can be written as 2 to the power of 2, to the power of 2. As we use the term [[binary number|binary]] for numbers written in base two, Lapointe reasoned that one could also say "bi-binary" for base four, and thus "bibi-binary" for base 16. Its name may also be a pun,{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} as the word ''bibi'' in French is slang for "me" or "myself"; various forms of word play were at the centre of Lapointe's artistic œuvre.
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