Okay, but I don't understand that chart. How does 6 in normal numbers = 110 in binary?
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Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:16:06 am PST #9547 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 6:16:37 am PST #9548 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some computer calculator programs can convert to and from binary. I forget if the one that comes with OS X does that, but the Win XP does.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2005 6:16:42 am PST #9549 of 10003
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I had a tag recently that said "There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't." Gud's table explains the joke.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:17:21 am PST #9550 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Also, if you divide f(x) by (x-a), why is the remainder always f(a)?
*This* is an understandable question, but "what up with binary code?" ISN'T? You mathy types are confusing.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:17:52 am PST #9551 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I had a tag recently that said "There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't." Gud's table explains the joke.
Um. Okay.
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2005 6:19:47 am PST #9552 of 10003
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Steph, binary counting is based on saying that every number can be expressed as the sum of powers of 2: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. The first digit (first on the right) is how many ones there are -- so every odd number will have a 1 there, and every even number will have a 0 there. The next digit is how many 2s there are. So 2 is 10, 3 is 11, since it's 2+1. And so on.
So, 9 = 8+1, so in binary it's 101. 10 = 8+2, so in binary it's 110. 19 = 16+2+1, so it's 1011. Etc.
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 6:19:51 am PST #9553 of 10003
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Let's use eggs instead.
Now Pe R. Son uses a 10-egg egg crate, but the town idiot Comp U. Ter uses a 2-egg egg crate instead. So if you have 3 eggs then P. Son doesn't have enough eggs to fill a crate so he says he has 3 eggs. C. Ter says he has one crate and 1 egg.
So for Pe R. Son - No crates and 3 eggs or "3" for short.
For Comp U. Ter - 1 crate and 1 egg or "11" for short.
brenda m - Dec 13, 2005 6:20:28 am PST #9554 of 10003
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Pretty sure it was tommyrot who posted that originally. But I don't if it's helpful to you in referencing binary in text.
DebetEsse - Dec 13, 2005 6:20:30 am PST #9555 of 10003
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Teppy, in regular numbers, when you get to 9, you're run out of numbers and have to add a place to say that you've hit 10. each time you hit 10 you increase that digit (in the tens place) by 1, until you run out of digits, and then you add the Hundreds place.
Binary does that same thing, only you run out much faster, as you only have 2 options for digits to put in a place, 0 and 1. So, rather than 10 (ten), meaning 1 ten and 0 units, you have 1 two and 0 singles. 100 would be 1 four, 0 twos, and 0 singles
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 6:20:35 am PST #9556 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How does 6 in normal numbers = 110 in binary?
Say you have 143. 143 in regular #s = 1*10^2 + 4*10^1 + 3*10^0
or 1 x 10^2 + 4*10 + 3
Now say you have 110 in binary. That = 1*2^2 + 1*2^1 + 0*1^0
or 2^2 + 2^1 + 0*1