Electronic and optical data storage and processing equipment can easily identify dichotomic behaviour: a choice of two positions: for example, on or off, pit or no pit, magnetised or not magnetised. It is much easier for a machine to unambiguously decide whether a particular memory location is magnetised or not magnetised rather than work out which of 10 levels of voltage it is at. The second option is much more likely to lead to errors. For that reason the binary system is well suited for electronic and optical data storage and processing.
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A.N.D. Leibniz defined the binary number system.
A binary system is a special type of a number system. The binary system uses only two digits, other number systems use more.
What is called the Binary number system. on and off is a binary state.
BIT means binary digit. So it is binary.
There are two digits in the binary number system. 0 and 1
binary number system
Because if it were not, then the name of the system would have to be changed.
There is no decimal number for the binary number 13 because 13 cannot be a binary number.
The binary system is the name given to the base-2 number system.
The base-2 (binary) system is simpler than a system based on any higher integer. In a way, it is the simplest possible number system.
The only numbers involved in the binary number system are one and 0. They are called binary numbers because it relates to exponents of the number two.
The numbers used in the binary number system are 1 and 0