In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

Binary vs. base 10. Base 10 is great for humans, but -- for reasons dealing with the on and off energy states -- computers use a base 2 number system. With base 2, or binary, every digit represents a ...

The first thing to know about binary is that it's a counting system. Just like we use the symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to express all the numbers in ...

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.

But to represent larger numbers, binary needs a lot more digits. Take this number in binary 10110111. We can convert it to decimal in the same way. We have 1 x 128, 0 x 64, 1 x 32, 1 x 16, ...

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 ...