FYI - Binary

Binary is a system of numbers that uses only two digits: 0 and 1. It’s the language that computers understand and use to process all information. Unlike the decimal system (which is base-10 and uses digits from 0 to 9), the binary system is base-2. Each binary digit is called a bit, and combinations of bits can represent numbers, letters, instructions, or anything a computer needs to handle.

In binary:

• The digit 0 usually represents "off" or "false"

• The digit 1 represents "on" or "true"

Computers use binary because their internal circuits have two states — on and off — which perfectly match the two symbols of binary.

For example:

• Decimal 1 = Binary 0001

• Decimal 2 = Binary 0010

• Decimal 3 = Binary 0011

• Decimal 4 = Binary 0100

Binary also encodes text using systems like ASCII, where each letter or symbol is assigned a binary number.

Here is a message in binary:

01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00111111

translates: "What is binary?"

Seems less efficient that decimals or english?

You can decode this string of 1s and 0s by copy/paste in the Binary to Text converter:

https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-to-ascii.html 

Source: Some or all of the content was generated using an AI language model