I thought that it would be cool to teach every here who doesn't know how to count in binary how to do so. It is really a simple thing.
Binary works in Switches. Off = 0 and On = 1. Counting in binary is done so by adding together ON switches based on their position. As an example:
0 = 0
That is that Zero is equal to Zero. Pretty simple stuff. We can then assume that:
1 = 1
That is that One is Equal to One.
Counting Higher than One is a little more complicated because bits can't go higher than ONE so we need to express to the computer that you want more than one bit. Now Binary is strange as you add to the LEFT not the RIGHT as you are probably used to. As an example:
10 = 2
That is we added a Second switch and it is ON and the first switch is OFF so number Two is On. We then use an addition system. So if Switch Number TWO is on and Switch Number ONE is on that is ONE plus TWO.
11 = 3
That is to say that 10 + 1 = 11 or 3.
Since we now have reached the maximum Number of switches to be ON that is that Switch One and Switch Two are both on we then must add a another switch if we wish to count higher.
100 = 4
And this cycle continues using the same addition system.
101 = 5
OR 100(4) + 1(1) = 5. And so on and so forth.
Now the next step is slightly confusing to some people and where a lot of people just give up but if you have followed along so far then there isn't much more to learn.
So far we have just been adding switched and ones together and most of this is simple but to form the next number (6) it takes a little bit of memorizing.
110 = 6
Or; 100(4) + 10(2) = 6
You have to memorize the binary code for Two (10) and then add it two the binary code for 4 (100). If you can get past this step then you can pretty much count in Binary, with a little time and practice.
1 - 10 in Binary:
1
10
11
100
101
110
111
1000
1001
1010
1
10
11
100
101
110
111
1000
1001
1010
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