Computers store and process data in binary form: current on or off, location magnetised or not, laser reader hits a pit or not.
Chat with our AI personalities
Binary Numbers all a computer knows!
Main Memory and Registers of just about every computer are based on 64-bit or 32-bit binary integers.
Assuming you mean the Universal Product Code, and assuming you mean computing the numbers into binary, I've linked a page that gets into a lot of detail about it.
Binary numbers belong to Binary number system. Binary System consists of only 2 digits (known as bits) 0 & 1. Any no. from decimal number system can be converted to binary number system. Binary numbers are widely used in design of various digital gadgets & computers. Following are some decimal no.s converted into binary numbers. Decimal number Binary number 0 0 1 1 2 10 3 11 4 100 5 101 6 110
The only numbers used in binary are 0 and 1