Understanding binary.

[Goku]

right i got bored so i decided to make up a char to binary tutorial as i
figured out how it works


ok, basically 0's do nothing, except separate the ones, well its kinda hard to explain. right say we have this.

32 16 8 4 2 1

that represents how binary is layed out. but it doubles each time. so you would have

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

and it continues on

so if you had

32 16 8 4 2 1
0 0 0 1 0 1

that would be 4+1 which is equal to 5.

therefore 101 = 5.

you write binary from right to left but you read it from left to right.
and if you get into converting letters to binary then is a bit harder.
you gotta look at you character map and keep counting to the left until you get the the character you want. so:

64 32 16 8 4 2 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 1

is a capital A because in the character map its the 65th character over if you count and 1+64 = 65.
so 1000001 = 65 = A

edit: errmm if the 1s and 0's look a bit off from the numbers above them its cuz phpbb is moving them over >.< i guess you have limited number of spaces between each character.

[Dutchman]

"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't."

[Jaguar]

lmao Dutcheh....that is hilarious, but only to a few of us weird nerds i guess. My question is how bored does a man get when he feels he needs to express binary to people on a whim....hmmmmm, 1 or 2 hours of humming perhaps?

[spliffyed]

erm

i was always taught that 1+1 is 2 and 0 + 1 is 1
and that computers were for doing more interesting things . . .

someone always spoils the fun by telling me theres a lower form of life

gonna send goku a compiler for xmas

[[AsC]Frags]

I am going to become a stripper...... again.. tanks Goku!

[Dutchman]

I am going to become a stripper...... again.. tanks Goku!

You ever stopped then?

and rofl Sam

[SenecaWolf]

erm

i was always taught that 1+1 is 2 and 0 + 1 is 1
and that computers were for doing more interesting things . . .

someone always spoils the fun by telling me theres a lower form of life

gonna send goku a compiler for xmas

But I was taught......

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