Ms technology vocabulary binary

Preston Ray

January 2009

Computer 7-3

Binary Code

Binary Code is for computer prossesing. It is a two-digit code consisting of only 1's and 0's. For example, the number 58 appears as 111010. If you type in a key on the computer such as "H" a series of 1's and 0's go to the computer and make the letter pop up.

Gottfried Leibnez was a German mathematician who created the binary system, though it was not used in computers until much later. In computers, one number is a bit, and eight numbers in a sequence is a byte. If computers used the decimal system (numbers 1-10) rather than the binary system, computers would run much more slowly and much less effectively.

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