It has two digits — 0 and 1 — and when it passes 1, it has to add 1 to the front and cycle back through. In other words, as strange as it may seem, one is 1, and two is 10. Using binary, this ...

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001. Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!”. Any code that uses just ...

Base 10 is great for humans, but -- for reasons dealing with the on and off energy states -- computers use a base 2 number system. With base 2, or binary, every digit represents a power of 2 and ...

Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero (0) that represent ON and OFF, respectively. The binary system is the core of all binary codes.

(via TEDEd) Imagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town. Now imagine trying to do it using only the numbers 1 and 0. Every time ...