Dusty's World - binary

Binary

Binary is a number system where there are only two values, 1 and 0 (or could be viewed as ON and OFF). All computers work in binary, they cannot see numbers as we do, for example, we could see say, 516 and we would know it five hundred and sixteen, a computer would only see it as 1000000100.

We as people work in base 10 with a decimal system so we find it difficult to understand binary. Take the word ' binary ' we can understand it but a computer working in binary would see it as 011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001

This would be because:

the b is 01100010, the i is 01101001, the n is 01101110, the a is 01100001, the r is 01110010, the y is 01110010and if we strung all the letters together we see binary the computer sees 01100010 + 01101001 + 01101110 + 01100001 + 01110010 + 01110010 or

011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001

I'm just glad I'm not a computer <LOL> that's why we need parts such as graphics cards to convert the binary in a computer's memory to something that we can understand and see what the computer is doing.



Binary Binary is a number system where there are only two values, 1 and 0 (or could be viewed as ON and OFF). All computers work in binary, they cannot see numbers as we do, for example, we could see say, 516 and we would know it five hundred and sixteen, a computer would only see it as 1000000100. We as people work in base 10 with a decimal system so we find it difficult to understand binary. Take the word ' binary ' we can understand it but a computer working in binary would see it as 011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001 This would be because: the b is 01100010, the i is 01101001, the n is 01101110, the a is 01100001, the r is 01110010, the y is 01110010and if we strung all the letters together we see binary the computer sees 01100010 + 01101001 + 01101110 + 01100001 + 01110010 + 01110010 or 011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001 I'm just glad I'm not a computer <LOL> that's why we need parts such as graphics cards to convert the binary in a computer's memory to something that we can understand and see what the computer is doing.