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Latest revision as of 18:12, 24 August 2011
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.
ctI Have added information to this page and there was nothing to correct. Edited by Hunter Kowalski.
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