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No such animal. Binary numbers are base 2. Base 8 numbers are called octal.
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Confusion arose because in the early days of computers hardly anyone was used to binary. A particular difficulty came from the sheer length of a binary number compared to its decimal equivalent. A number in the range 8,000,000 to -8,000,000 is easy to read, say and understand. A 24 bit (binary) word, enough for +/- 8,000,000 is too much for people to take in.
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So, a 24 bit word was split into 8 groups of 3, just by spaces in between. It was not difficult to remember that 110 was 6 or 101 was 5. The 3-bit groups were spoken in their octal equivalents, written down like that, and easily used to enter a 24 bit word onto a set of switches in binary. The programmer's 'cheat-sheet' for machine code was printed like this in the octal names for 3 bit groups.
Programmers who work in assembler (almost machine code) still use a trick like this. However, word lengths today are not divisible by three; great lengths of binary are split into groups of four, which are then treated as hexadecimal.
When you see a page or more looking like: -
00 00 37 53 6F A0 39 FF 8C 00 CB DB 52 22 00 that is hex.
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Computers process binary numbers which are composed of?
Binary numbers, with or without a computer are a series of 1's and 0's.
What is the alphabet in binary code?
I think its something like this {| ! width="30%" | Letter ! Binary Code | A01000001B01000010C01000011D01000100E01000101F01000110G01000111H01001000I01001001J01001010K01001011L01001100M01001101N01001110O01001111P01010000Q01010001R01010010S01010011T01010100U01010101V01010110W01010111X01011000Y01011001Z01011010 and ! width="30%" | Letter ! Binary Code | a01100001b01100010c01100011d01100100e01100101f01100110g01100111h01101000i01101001j01101010k01101011l01101100m01101101n01101110o01101111p01110000q01110001r01110010s01110011t01110100u01110101v01110110w01110111x01111000y01111001z01111010 |}
What are the two numbers that a computer can read?
A computer works in binary, meaning that a computer interprets everything as simply 'on' or 'off', and recognizes two numbers: zero and one.
2 example of binary?
A binary number is a number that consists of only 0 and 1. We use decimal numbers, which consist of numbers made up from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The decimal system is also known as the denary system. Binary is critical to how computers operate, but that would take time to explain in detail. For your examples that you asked for, the following is how binary and decimal represent numbers from decimal 0 to decimal 10. 0 = 0 1 = 1 10 = 2 11 = 3 100 = 4 101 = 5 110 = 6 111 = 7 1000 = 8 1001 = 9 1010 = 10
What number system did the Atanasoff Berry Computer use?
twos compliment binary Each of its capacitor memory drums stored 30 fixed point 50 bit twos compliment binary numbers (totaling 60 numbers of roughly 14 digit precision). Note: the ENIAC could only store 20 fixed point numbers of 10 digit precision as a comparison (using decimal numbers). Both machines could only do additions and subtractions (although ENIAC had special hardware implementing algorithms for multiplication, division, and square roots by performing sequences of additions and subtractions and was programmable to solve different problems, while the ABC performed only the single function of solving large systems of simultaneous equations).
