The first versions of ASCII used 7-bit codes, which meant they could attach a character to every binary number between 0000000 and 1111111, which is 0 to 128 in decimal.

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001. Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!”. Any code that uses just ...

Unlike our everyday counting system that uses tens, binary uses just two numbers, 0 and 1. Learn more with BBC Bitesize. Suitable for KS3 students.

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and ...

Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code ...

They find that the former Mangarevans combined base-10 representation with a binary system. They had number words for 1 to 10, and then for 10 multiplied by several powers of 2.