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What means binary?

I don't know what It is

30th Nov 2016, 8:29 PM
Diogo Lopes
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Binary is a 2 base number system, where everything is represented by different combinations of 0 and 1. There are also different types of binary numers (signed, unsigned, exponential, etc.). For example, the number 5 in unsigned binary notation will be 101 ( as 1*2^2+ 0*2^1 + 1*2^0 = 5).
1st Dec 2016, 10:10 AM
Rebeka Asryan
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there are 10 types of ppl in this world. those who understand binary and those who dont
8th Dec 2016, 4:44 AM
zxcyq
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Binary is the "language" computers use. It's represented as 1s and 0s, or on-off switches. Each 1 or 0 is called a bit. Our normal counting system is decimal/base-10, where we carry to the next number place after counting up to 9. Binary is base-2, and carries to the next place after counting up to 1. It's not necessary to learn other number systems to understand the classes in this app, though!
30th Nov 2016, 8:51 PM
Tamra
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Binary (or "base-2") a numeric system that only uses two digits — 0 and 1. Computers operate in binary, meaningthey store data and perform calculations using only zeros and ones.
30th Nov 2016, 9:12 PM
Abdelaziz Abubaker
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Than everything is on or off? That means that we are in a computer that anyone programmed a hole live using 0 and 1 Matrix confirmed
1st Dec 2016, 4:45 PM
Diogo Lopes
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Binary means two of something. A binary star system is a system with two stars (suns). A trinary star system would have 3 suns. Our solar system has one star, therefore it is a unary star system. Computers were developed around the concept of a switch being on or off. At first, electrical relays, then electronic control with a vacuum tubes, and eventually with P-N-P and N-P-N junctions (transistors) on silicon wafers doped with material that conducted electricity at one voltage (on) and didn't at a lower voltage (off). Thus was born the BInary digiT, or the "bit", an electronic representation of a Base 2 number system. There are also unary and binary operators, which require one or two operands, respectively. ++i, the pre-assignment increment operator, is a unary operator because it takes one operand, in this case "i". a && b is a binary operator for logical "and", as it requires two operands, in this case "a" and "b". Two of something means binary.
3rd Dec 2016, 10:02 PM
Leif W
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Binary is simple, it means it's a base #2 numeric system in which 1 represents on and 0 represents off. Think of it as a light switch (up is on and down is off). I hope this help.
15th Dec 2016, 6:40 PM
Karla Galarza
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in decimal there are 10 digits that is 0 to 9 in binary there are only 0 and 1
13th Jan 2017, 5:26 AM
Krushang Shah
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it is a low level language which can be understood my computer . It is a base 2 language that means we only use 0 &1 in it.
28th Feb 2017, 4:13 AM
Paras jain
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Thanks
30th Nov 2016, 8:53 PM
Diogo Lopes
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which case is your "binary" term to use? OS, algorithm or anything else?
1st Dec 2016, 4:15 PM
Nguyen Van Khang
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0001 = 1 0010 = 2 0011 = 3 0100 = 4 0101 = 5 0110 = 6 0111 = 7 1000 = 8 Looking at the 1's and 0's from right to left we can give them numerical values: 8 4 2 1 e.g. 8 4 2 1 0 1 0 1 = 5 Each 1 and 0 is referred to as a bit, groups of 4 bits are called nibbles (as above), and groups of 8 bits are called bytes. When a bit is used, it is on (1), when a bit is not used it is off (0). Numbers used are added together to give the decimal (denary) equivalent.
15th Dec 2016, 9:35 AM
Ljjersey
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the nos we use normally are in decimal meaning they contain ten digits from 0 to 9. but when we use just two digits such as 0 to 1 it is binary strangely this theory is very old found in ancient Indian Books describing number theory and were used to solve complex problems of large calcikation logarithms and division later on we invented computers and found that we have only two signals to process by circuit networks 0 and 1 on or off so we took the old formulas again
15th Dec 2016, 11:34 AM
Sandeep Chatterjee
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0 and 1 , as computers only understand 0-1 only
9th Jan 2017, 4:33 PM
Arnav Pundir
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binary means it is having 2 values. 0 & 1 which are understood by the computer
11th Jan 2017, 6:20 PM
Thadaka Prashanth Kumar
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binary is code what uderstand mashine
28th May 2017, 10:11 PM
Sahak Hakobyan
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Simply .. a code that potentially can be active.. containing some commands ..that might affect your software ..related to bin You have got specific detailed answers too ..
18th Dec 2016, 4:38 PM
irajjs
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Binary is a machine language. Which mean whatever type of language (HLL) you are using, it will compile to (LLL) than assembled to machine language. E.G. C++ > MIPS > Binary code Which mean HLL > LLL > machine code
2nd Jan 2017, 12:35 AM
shaufyq sone
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o and 1 , machine language
26th Feb 2017, 9:14 PM
Achintya Sharma
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السلام عليكم
16th Dec 2016, 4:14 PM
Djilali Jojo
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