Monday, October 20, 2008

Welcome to My Binary Olympics

In one of my previous classes, Mr Vogel taught us a computer operation called Binary Olympics. All computers work on binary operations which are based on "switches" they can be also referred to "bits." For example, 1111 is a four-bit byte with all the switches set to on. Where on is determine to be a "1", then the off is determine to be a "0." The four switches represent a sequence of numbers using the same positional values as the decimal system. The values are powers of two positioning from right to left. For example, 1111 can be also 20 21 22 23 will be then 1248, will then be 8+4+2+1 =15(f is the base 16 hexadecimal or hex).

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