Archive for December, 2008

Binary Number

Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 by wizardkelly69

Base 10 Binary is also known as Arabic.  Unlike Base 2 binary, which features only 0, and 1, Base 10 has numbers 0-9.  Binary is the use of 2, and an exponent.  Pretty much like, 2^0= 1, 2^1=2, 2^2=4, etc. Binary is the addition of these 2^’s to make a number. 0 means the 2^ is switched off, 1 means the 2^ is switched on.

For Example:

2^5, 2^4, 2^3, 2^2, 2^1, 2^0

0         0         1        0        1         1

So you see, the 2^3, 2^1, and 2^0 are turned on, while everything else is turned off.

Now you add the 2^’s that are turned on.

2^3=16

2^1=2

2^0=1

= 19

So, as you can see, Binary is actually pretty easy.  In case you were wondering how a gigabyte or megabyte got it’s measure  got it’s value in bytes, here you go:

1 bit

8 bits – 1byte

1024 bytes – 1 kilobyte

1024 kilobytes – 1 megabyte

1024 megabytes – 1 gigabyte

1024 gigabytes – terrabyte

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