Thursday, June 6, 2013

Binary (Base 2)

The world works on base 10 numbers but computers and telephones on the other hand use base 2 (binary). In some stage of school, you will have to learn base numbers. This post hopefully will explain to you how binary works. Anything to the power of 0 is 1.

Let's start with a basic base 10 number, say 35

35: (32+2+1) = 35. All other place holders are a 0.


 26 (64)
25 (32)
24 (16)
23 (8)
22 (4)
21 (2)
20 (1)

 1
 0
 0
 0
 1
 1


Let's try a slightly harder number, say 112.

 112: (64+32+16) = 35. Once again all other place holders are a 0
 26 (64)
25 (32)
24 (16)
23 (8)
22 (4)
21 (2)
20 (1)
 1
1
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0

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