In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.

In Part 1 of this mini-mega-series, we introduced the concepts of integers, signed integers, and unsigned integers (we also touched on positive integers, non-negative integers, counting numbers, and ...

The formulation of the binary number system essentially laid the groundwork for digital circuitry, computers, and the field of computer science, as we know it in today’s technologically-advanced world ...

Binary codes are codes which are characterized in binary system with alteration from the original ones. The two types of binary codes are the Weighted Binary Systems and Non Weighted Codes. Weighted ...

Binary is another name for base-2 numbering. The everyday numbers we’re used to counting with are base-10, meaning there are 10 basic numbers – 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...

Base-2 system helped to simplify calculations centuries before Europeans rediscovered it. Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented ...

Conversion of binary to decimal numbers is often needed in firmware. And it’s done easily enough if multiplication and division by ten are acceptable. However, these operations, especially division, ...

One of the things I love to do is teach people about computers, especially how we can use them to represent and manipulate different types of numbers (I really need to get out more). For the purposes ...